DRAM prices have tripled, and three products are paying the price
… Sign in to your XDA account DRAM prices have surged by over 170% year-on-year. …
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DRAM, or dynamic random-access memory, is a volatile computer memory technology that stores bits in capacitors and requires periodic refreshing to maintain data.
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