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        "id": 1678149,
        "msgid": "ram-prices-begin-to-fall-after-a-year-of-surging-the-right-time-to-build-a-pc-1776221517",
        "date": "2026-04-15 08:43:00",
        "title": "RAM Prices Begin to Fall After a Year of Surging: The Right Time to Build a PC?",
        "author": "Reza Wahyudi",
        "source": "KOMPAS",
        "tags": "",
        "topic": "Technology",
        "summary": "After nearly a year of skyrocketing prices driven by the AI boom, RAM prices for DDR4 and DDR5 are finally showing signs of decline, with spot prices for 16GB DDR4 dropping 5% to around $74.10 USD and DDR5 to $37.20 USD, though still significantly higher than last year. Sharp drops of up to 30% in China's retail market and on Amazon stem from distributors offloading stockpiles amid weakening demand from home PC users and small vendors unable to absorb high costs. Recent announcements from Google may further influence this trend, presenting a potential opportunity for PC builders.",
        "content": "<p>KOMPAS.com - There is good news for those planning to build a PC and\nwho have recently been puzzled by the rising prices of memory\ncomponents. After experiencing an unreasonable price surge for nearly\nthe past year, spot prices for DDR4 and DDR5 RAM are slowly beginning to\nshow signs of decline. Memory prices in the market once surged up to\n2,200 per cent over the last 12 months, due to the explosion in demand\nfrom the artificial intelligence (AI) industry. Now, for the first time\nin nearly a year, the memory price graph has finally fallen. Based on\nthe latest data from DigiTimes, the spot price for 16 GB DDR4 RAM fell\naround 5 per cent throughout the past month, settling at around $74.10\nUSD (approximately Rp 1.27 million). This is the first monthly decline\nsince last February. As an illustration of how high the price increase\nfor this component was, a year ago the same component was still priced\nat around $3.20 USD. Even though it has fallen 5 per cent, the current\nprice is still 20 times more expensive than last year. Similar signs of\ndecline are also visible in the DDR5 variant. 16GB DDR5 RAM has fallen\nto around $37.20 USD. The sharpest price drops are actually observed in\nChina\u2019s retail market and channel distributors, as well as on the Amazon\nmarketplace, as compiled by KompasTekno from Tom\u2019s Hardware. In the\nChinese market, prices for some 32GB DDR5 memory kits have even been\nreported to plummet up to 30 per cent, while 8GB and 16GB DDR4 modules\nhave fallen sharply up to 25 per cent. First, distributors (mainly in\nChina) who previously hoarded stocks excessively when prices were at\ntheir peak are now starting to \u201cclear their warehouses\u201d by releasing\ntheir stocks. This step is taken because small vendors can no longer\nabsorb components that are too expensive, amid weak demand from home PC\nclass consumers. The second factor, which is no less interesting, is the\nrecent announcement from Google.<\/p>",
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