{"slug": "ramageddon-2027-memory-capacity-reportedly-sold-out", "title": "RAMageddon?  2027 Memory Capacity  Reportedly Sold Out", "summary": "A new report from Digitimes, spotted by TweakTown, indicates that Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron have collectively sold out all their DRAM and HBM manufacturing capacity for 2027, largely to AI companies through long-term purchasing agreements. This could lead to continued high RAM prices and scarcity, as no additional supply is planned, while NAND storage demand is also rising but not fully absorbed.", "body_md": "IGN reports:\n[A] new report suggests that all three memory manufacturers — Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron — have collectively sold through their 2027 memory manufacturing capacity to, you guessed it, AI companies.\nAccording to a report from Digitimes and spotted by TweakTown, all DRAM and HBM capacity has been sold through for 2027, with no further supply planned. (The companies themselves have not yet confirmed this to be the case.) Of course, that only means that retail prices are going to go up even further in the near future.\nSelling through all the capacity for next year would be bad enough for consumers, but the problem is that most of the companies buying up this capacity have done so through long-term purchasing agreements, essentially pre-ordering memory that hasn't even been manufactured yet over a five-year term. Unless more capacity opens up somewhere in the next few years, it's hard to imagine that RAM will become more affordable and less scarce any time soon.\nIt's not just memory that's affected. According to that Digitimes report, NAND storage is growing in demand too. Luckily, NAND capacity hasn't been completely absorbed, because there are more companies supplying the stuff. But it's not exactly hard to see that SSDs have been growing steadily more expensive over the last six months or so.[Read more of this story](https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/08/09/0547220/ramageddon-2027-memory-capacity-reportedly-sold-out?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed) at Slashdot.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ramageddon-2027-memory-capacity-reportedly-sold-out", "canonical_source": "https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/08/09/0547220/ramageddon-2027-memory-capacity-reportedly-sold-out?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed", "published_at": "2026-08-09 07:52:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-09 09:37:23.391436+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-infrastructure", "ai-chips"], "entities": ["Samsung", "SK Hynix", "Micron", "Digitimes", "TweakTown", "IGN", "Slashdot"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ramageddon-2027-memory-capacity-reportedly-sold-out", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ramageddon-2027-memory-capacity-reportedly-sold-out.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ramageddon-2027-memory-capacity-reportedly-sold-out.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ramageddon-2027-memory-capacity-reportedly-sold-out.jsonld"}}