The graphics card bubble seems to be reducing, chip shortages affecting other components may be reducing the need to upgrade RAM¹ both for personal and commerci

The graphics card bubble seems to be reducing, chip shortages affecting other components may be reducing the need to upgrade RAM¹ both for personal and commercial users, and a general drop in demand because of recent cost of living increases² in many places. Furthermore RAM prices generally may have been kept higher in the last two years due to demand from companies and individuals buying or upgrading kit for home working. Even without the migration of many workers back to offices that extra demand would be rapidly cooling off anyway, as those upgrades and new purchases are³ not part of a regular pattern, so this may be an expected correction. On top of that the tech is no longer as new: production costs will be dropping as processes are refined and output numbers increase. Though I suspect the current drop is more a demand-side thing for several reasons including the above. Also: early pioneers have been scalped already, the next tranche of buyers may not bite until there is this sort of price drop. [1] why bother if other parts of your system won't keep up well enough for you to see the benefit? [2] fuel, food, interest rates rising in some countries affects those with a mortgage, et cacas: fancy tech is a luxury, people may put off such purchases until the costs of essentials settle a bit [3] hopefully!