The Minutes of Dylan Patel on memory https://minutesof.com/dylan-patel/on/memory/ Everything Dylan Patel has said on memory: 4 verbatim quotes between February 2023 and August 2026, each with a timestamp and a link to the recording it… en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 16:22:20 +0000 Patel reports memory prices have quadrupled over the past year, with SSDs up three to four times. https://minutesof.com/q/c56e363b-dd83-4210-8f36-83191d9f8973/ https://minutesof.com/q/c56e363b-dd83-4210-8f36-83191d9f8973/ “Memory has like four x in price over the last like year, and it's gonna continue to go up. And then now storage SSD, right?” — Daytona Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:12:37 +0000 memory Patel explains reasoning models dramatically increase serving costs due to long output context and memory cons https://minutesof.com/q/8ea24247-feff-4e7f-beec-571f6109d01d/ https://minutesof.com/q/8ea24247-feff-4e7f-beec-571f6109d01d/ “your memory usage is going way up with these reasoning models, and you still have a lot of users. So effectively, the cost to serve multiplies by a ton.” — Lex Fridman Mon, 03 Feb 2025 00:12:13 +0000 memory Patel states memory cost has quadrupled in NVIDIA GPUs while per-gigabyte pricing remained flat since 2016. https://minutesof.com/q/fad9d07a-a3d6-43a9-9e0b-f2591b6d3829/ https://minutesof.com/q/fad9d07a-a3d6-43a9-9e0b-f2591b6d3829/ “And now with the h 100, they have 96 or 80 gigabytes of memory, but the cost per gigabyte is the same.” — Gradient Flow Thu, 02 Feb 2023 12:00:39 +0000 memory