The complaints about RAM prices are kind of funny, when you have experienced the shortages that were caused by a fucking plastic factory in Japan burning down. Turned out that all RAM casing in the world was based on plastic from that single factory!

RAM has on occasion since the 80’s increased in price due to shortages, but also due to cartel agreements, and they’ve always come down again.

It may take a couple of years, but the they will come down for 2 reasons. 1, production will increase because it is extremely profitable. 2, the high prices are caused by overheated AI demand. That demand will cool down, as new market opportunities slow down.
It’s not a matter of if but when

Quad channel RAM will have to become standard at some point. And the RAM isn’t more expensive just because the CPU has more cores.
If you build an 8 core system, the RAM will be just as expensive. The high RAM prices hit everything.
I only wrote we are getting close, to me it’s close if it comes within a couple of years. Remember this was compared to the 80’s, which was about 40 years ago.

Whoa I was just thinking back to when 32 bit CPU arrived for the desktop back in the 80’s. That was HUGE!
Now we are getting close to 32 cores becoming a desktop option! The computing power we have in modern desktops is insane.