--- title: How AI is solving the memory crunch it created | daily.dev description: RAM prices have surged 170% over the past year, driven by AI workload demand and supply chain shifts from DDR4 to DDR5. Enterprises are over-provisioning by... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-ai-is-solving-the-memory-crunch-it-created-yftfgowa7 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How AI is solving the memory crunch it created | daily.dev og:description: RAM prices have surged 170% over the past year, driven by AI workload demand and supply chain shifts from DDR4 to DDR5. Enterprises are over-provisioning by... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-ai-is-solving-the-memory-crunch-it-created-yftfgowa7 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/yFTFGOwa7.png og:image:alt: How AI is solving the memory crunch it created og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How AI is solving the memory crunch it created **[The New Stack](https://daily.dev/sources/newstack)** · [@jkriggins](https://daily.dev/jkriggins) · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary RAM prices have surged 170% over the past year, driven by AI workload demand and supply chain shifts from DDR4 to DDR5. Enterprises are over-provisioning by 20–40%, creating significant waste. HPE argues the solution is a three-step approach: establish a real usage baseline with tools like HPE CloudPhysics, adopt predictive provisioning using memory ballooning and oversubscription (coming in Morpheus 9.0), and shift to architectural efficiency via open-source hypervisors and per-socket licensing. This approach can cut costs by up to 50% and reduce decision-making cycle time by 80%. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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