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RAMageddon (n.) is a severe shortage of computer memory chips, caused by AI data centers buying up supply and driving prices up.
RAMageddon (n.) is gamers learning they were never the customer, just the leftovers.
RAMageddon (n.) is the world's memory, hoarded by chatbots that still forget your name.
RAMageddon (n.) is pandemic toilet-paper hoarding, by buyers with their own power plants.
Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron together make roughly 95% of the world's DRAM, so their shift toward AI customers moves the price of nearly every device.
Crucial, Micron's consumer memory brand, stopped shipping to individual shoppers as supply went to AI data centers.
A Facebook Marketplace user swapped a 192GB DDR5 kit for an RTX 5070 Ti, though the RAM's list price had climbed to roughly three times the card's.
RAMageddon (n.) is the day the old RAM in your junk drawer becomes a retirement plan.
RAMageddon (n.) is a stick of memory that costs more than the graphics card it was meant to feed.