Historical memory prices 1960-2026
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- The website provides interactive charts tracking historic and current memory and storage prices, inspired by John C. McCallum's dataset.
- Key data tracks DRAM, NAND flash, and HBM prices per gigabyte over time on a log scale, with toggles for nominal vs. inflation-adjusted (constant 2024) dollars.
- DRAM prices are broken out by generation (Pre-DDR to DDR5), with generation inferred from product descriptions for older data.
- Accelerator cost breakdowns are modeled estimates from Epoch AI, showing quarterly costs for Nvidia, AMD, Google, and Amazon, stacked by component.
- HBM price data is by generation (HBM2e to HBM4) and includes sparse industry-analyst estimates, as HBM lacks a public spot market.
- Methodology details sources: DRAM data combines McCallum's dataset and Keepa retail prices; NAND uses Keepa for NVMe SSDs; HBM data relies on external estimates.
- Caveats note that prices are retail, not contract; cheapest listings may reflect clearance; data may include splicing or modeling inaccuracies.
- Data updates monthly for DRAM/NAND via Keepa, and quarterly for HBM via Epoch AI; the McCallum dataset and HBM estimates are static.