This year, Black Friday tech shoppers should heed one important message: Don’t wait, buy now. Why? Because certain components are skyrocketing in price—and it’s expected to get even worse. DRAM prices, for example, have doubled in little more than a month.

AI hyperscalers have snapped up whatever they can buy. As OpenAI and its rivals throw billions of dollars at hardware makers, commodity chip vendors are prioritizing them over consumers. That means fewer components for you. And have you heard about tariffs?

Intel has already told analysts that it’s de-prioritizing its low-end, cheap PC microprocessors and predicting shortages in 2026. DRAM? Forget about it: DDR4 memory is being phased out, and DDR5 price trends are almost going vertical. SSDs are less affected, but still under pressure

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