'How can prices fall when there's nothing left?' TeamGroup CEO reckons supply-demand memory equilibrium may not happen until late 2028 at the earliest

You may well be sick of reading about it—I am certainly sick to my stomach writing about it—but here's another doom-filled prophecy about the continuing memory crisis. Doesn't seem quite so funny calling it a RAMpocalypse now. The CEO of memory module maker TeamGroup, Chen Ching, is claiming we still haven't seen the worst of the supply crisis, and that even in 2027 "there will be no downward price trend whatsoever."

According to a report from BigGo Finance, which cropped up while I was searching for a credible source after mydrivers wrote about it, Chen thinks the worst of the shortage will be from now until the middle of next year, and that we're likely to get to a point with DRAM that "even money can't buy goods".

"Right now you can still buy goods, they're just expensive," he says. "In a little while, you may not be able to buy goods at all."

This is all on the back …