Lenovo says server buyers must rethink RAM capacity planning
The company says DRAM and NAND prices may not return to 2025 levels for years.
During a presentation at ISC 2026, Lenovo executive director Martin Hiegl said memory prices may “never” return to the levels seen before the current price surge. ComputerBase reports that the comment was made with some exaggeration, but the message referred to a period of roughly five years and potentially longer.
Lenovo expects a different pricing baseline to appear around 2030, even after new manufacturing capacity comes online from 2028. The company also warned that memory capacity now has to be planned more carefully during system procurement.
Source: Lenovo/ComputerBase
Lenovo shares RAMageddon survival guide
Lenovo also used the presentation to show what it called “The 5 Step RAMageddon Survival Guide”. The slide lists five steps for system buyers: review requirements, optimize operation, choose CPU, adjust application and move workloads to GPUs where it makes sense. This is clearly aimed at datacenter planners rather than consumers.
The message is that memory capacity can no longer be treated as a cheap platform option. Lenovo suggests that buyers should first check how much memory a workload needs, then look at CPU selection, software changes and operational tuning before adding more RAM by default.
Source: Lenovo/ComputerBase
The company said the old approach of maximizing RAM capacity based on platform limits may no longer be practical for every workload. For some applications, Lenovo says a GPU-accelerated system could make more sense than a CPU-heavy configuration with large amounts of system memory.
So at least we know it is not only consumers being affected by memory shortages. The companies driving this demand are also feeling the effects.
Source: ComputerBase
