AMD says it can attempt to hold GPU costs down amid RAM scarcity

The continued, AI-induced RAM scarcity is inflicting costs to spike nearly in all places — smartphones, laptops, PCs, and even iPhones are going through provide points. However some firms, like AMD, are promising to attempt to hold costs down.

AMD’s vp of Ryzen, David McAfee, instructed Gizmodo in an interview that the corporate needs to maintain GPU costs down, although all of it comes all the way down to how effectively it might probably handle the reminiscence ecosystem and RAM value gouging.

“We now have very strategic partnerships over many, a few years with all of the DRAM producers to be sure that each the quantity of provide that we want and the economics of what we’re in a position to purchase from them are what we are able to help in our graphics enterprise,” McAfee instructed Gizmodo.

Additional, McAfee mentioned AMD was working with its add-in card (AIC) companions to attempt to keep costs. Nonetheless, he additionally hedged, noting he can’t predict the long run.

Whereas possibly not probably the most assured assertion, it’s at the least a sliver of first rate information for PC fanatics. If — and it’s an enormous if! — AMD can hold GPU costs down, it might make the corporate’s merchandise a extra beneficial possibility, particularly as Nvidia is reportedly slashing GPU manufacturing. Much less manufacturing will imply fewer GPUs and, inevitably, increased costs for shoppers.

Finally, the long run stays unsure, however all indicators level to tech getting much more costly in 2026, all due to AI.

Supply: Gizmodo