On overseas social media platforms, some users shared an astonishing hardware quote. A Corsair 128GB DDR5 memory set is priced at more than $4,000, even more expensive than some top graphics cards (RTX 5090).From the picture,Corsair Vengeance DDR5-6400 128GB (2×64GB)Its price tag is as high as US$4,199, which is approximately more than 28,000 yuan.
Many netizens reported that this situation is not an isolated case in many markets. Although the current inventory seems to be quite sufficient, and some offline stores even have hundreds of sets of similar products in stock, consumers are mostly on the sidelines due to excessive pricing. This shows that the high price is not caused by a shortage of supply, but a deviation in some market pricing strategy.
In addition to memory, the price increase of high-end solid-state drives is also very obvious.
Even during the promotion period, the price of a 4TB Western Digital black disk NVMe M.2 solid-state drive still hovers around US$700. At the same time, the inventory of major retail channels is still abundant, and there is no obvious supply pressure.
Industry analysts point out that even if consumer-grade memory may experience a slight correction in the short term, this price reduction trend will be difficult to sustain. Especially for high-performance DDR5 memory, there is still room for further growth in the future. Currently, most of the products accumulated in the retail market are old inventory from several months ago, and the focus of upstream production capacity is shifting.
As chip manufacturers are shifting their business focus to the more profitable enterprise market and the hot AI field on a large scale, the priority of the consumer market is declining. This means that even if retail sales slow down, upstream manufacturers may not quickly cut prices to stimulate the market.
This misalignment of supply and demand makes ordinary consumers face a higher cost threshold when building high-end computer platforms. In an environment where chip giants are scrambling to lay out the artificial intelligence track, the prices of traditional PC accessories may remain at high levels for a longer period of time.
