for me RAM is a perfected technology, new buses will come, more speed, but it will fundamentally be the same manufacturing process, same materials. The prospect is that LLMs will keep getting larger, more RAM will be required, and the prices will keep getting higher, or along the curve, while the demand will keep up with it because everything has RAM in it. Do you see a point in the future where the industry forks out of this, and there’s an alternative where the end user is not affected as much from the demand of this resource?
Probably when we leave DDR5 and then DDR6 will be the sacrificial goat to AI.
What AI will do, is that it will cause a market lapse between generations of RAM. People who missed out on DD5, have to wait until we’re at DD6 and vice versa.