No, RAM is not worth more than gold by weight — the true numbers are strange enough
2026-08-26AI
A claim doing the rounds says AI demand has pushed memory past gold by weight. Gold closed at $150.34 a gram; a 32GB DDR5 kit at $400 works out around $4 to $5. The claim is wrong by a factor of about thirty. What is true: DRAM is on course to rise more than 400% from early 2024, and AI will take a fifth of the world's supply.