Will hardware get cheaper in 2 years from now?

HooRU · 2026-09-30T19:24:23+00:00

With the advent of AI and supply versus demand, some computer parts are just too expensive. In maybe 2 years I hope to build a new system, but who here thinks prices will calm by then? Who here doesn’t think so? Will the AI craze calm down or will the bubble burst?

ugly95

InternetJeff Ahem… So-called “reasonable” is what buyers are willing to pay sellers.

That does become an issue the longer this whole ordeal continues.

Sure, some of us can remember when the price of a good gaming video card was $200, or that you can buy RAM for under $100.

But now there’s going to be a lot of people who are growing up having built a computer and only knowing that a video card costs $500+ and buying RAM is only something you can dream about like paying off your student debt, or owning a home.

The longer these prices become normalized, the more they will become the ‘reasonable’ price that buyers are willing to pay.

real_aurgathor

InternetJeff

This is such a classy, typical deffrian reply that I have to quote in full.

InternetJeff InternetJeff These are general macroeconomic rules, driven by supply and demand, and are applicable either across the board or within a particular product sector.

real_aurgathor
LOL. The usual diversion tactic by trying to argue about a largely unrelated and not applicable relationship.

That is irrelevant even if it’s true because the current price spike is essentially caused by a big demand from data centers, possibly helped by the companies raising price beyond reasonable

Right.

I was crystal clear above ( https://broadbandbulletin.com/d/10984-will-hardware-get-cheaper-in-2-years-from-now/19 and https://broadbandbulletin.com/d/10984-will-hardware-get-cheaper-in-2-years-from-now/30 ) and only replied to your unemployment related comment, and now you carefully edit my post to make it look like I was replying to your comment about supply and demand.

Since this is not the first time occurrence of such a dastardly editing to completely change the meaning of my posts, I will look into if this a behavior can be considered trolling. Will have a better example than the above.

InternetJeff

real_aurgathor and now you carefully edit my post to make it look like I was replying to your comment about supply and demand.

Nope.

You quoted me citing supply and demand.

As far as the un/employment aspect, it’s a real factor, as the industries associated with the AI supply chain are at or near full employment, and unemployment and inflation, whether at large or in a particular market sector, tend to be inversely proportional.

Octavean

To Answer your question, maybe in 2 years things will stabilize and return to some semblance of sanity or perhaps not.

There are other factors to consider. A natural disaster (flooding in Thailand) caused HDD prices to spike in 2011. in 2017 Crypto mining caused GPU price spikes. Likewise, Chia mining caused HDD price to spikes in 2021. Ai is just the current man made disaster to cause hardware price spikes.

Also note the rush for the industry to provide “Services”. A reasonably self contained software product may be rebranded as a “Service” to better monetize the product and keep customers paying annually, weekly or monthly. Video games for example are now on offer by renting compute power. So private businesses have a vested interest to sell compute power Ad Infinitum to the masses in a quasi “You’ll own nothing and like it” Faustian bargain.

CPU, GPU, storage (HDD / SSD), RAM etc. have become resources that some companies can benefit from denying the general public.

Ultimately IMO AI is not just unregulated but governments are actually aiding in its rollout at the detriment of the people (in many ways). The question is less about will hardware get cheaper in XYZ years and more about what companies are incentivized to provide what I want at an affordable price, will said companies still be around in XYZ years and will Ai put me out of a job (thus making nonessential expenses a nonstarter anyway)?

We can hope the bubble will pop and soon but until that happens there is no guarantee that it will.

Abandon all hope ye who enter here

John_deSouza

real_aurgathor deffrian reply

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