A PC manufacturer announces price increases, this time SSD drives are to blame
Although it has been announced a pause in the rise in RAM memory pricesit seems that the disks SSDs have not had the same luck. A manufacturer of pre-assembled PCs has announced a new price increase in its equipment, this time it is to blame for SSD drives. According to PowerGPU the costs of the SSD drives have risen againas well as other parts of PCs that follow this price increase trend.
SSD drives continue to rise to make PCs and laptops a little more expensive
Although they were rising to a lesser extent, SSD drives had not been spared from the AI revolution, which has caused these unusual and high prices for some components. But it seems that the trend of SSD disks will follow in the footsteps of RAM memorywhich has multiplied prices since last November. Furthermore, they are cited other components without specifying, although it seems that everything points to the graphics cards.
Graphics cards are also rising in price
Another component that will surely begin to increase in price considerably is the graphics cardsa component that also makes use of DRAM memory in its manufacture. It is known that NVIDIA is prioritizing the manufacturing cards with 8 GB of VRAMwhile AMD has made the same request to the manufacturers.
Regarding the price of these other componentsit is known that AMD has risenfor the second time, the price of its GPUs another 10%a tactic that NVIDIA has also carried out, given the prices that this component now shows Essential for gamers and other graphic work.
Juan Antonio Soto
I am a Computer Engineer and my specialty is automation and robotics. My passion for hardware began at the age of 14 when I broke down my first computer: a 386 DX 40 with 4MB of RAM and 210MB of hard drive. I continue to give free rein to my passion in the technical articles I write for Geeknetic. I dedicate most of my free time to video games, contemporary and retro, on the more than 20 consoles I have, in addition to the PC.
