Published Jun 6, 2026, 5:00 PM EDT After a 7-year corporate stint, Tanveer found his love for writing and tech too much to resist. An MBA in Marketing and the owner of a PC building business, he writes on PC hardware, technology, and Windows. When not scouring the web for ideas, he can be found building PCs, watching anime, or playing Smash Karts on his RTX 3080 (sigh). In case you haven't looked at PC hardware prices in the last eight months, let me be the harbinger of bad news. When unprecedented demand from AI companies drove memory and storage prices to record levels, everyone thought that was where the crisis would end. However, even graphics cards have become way more expensive due to rapidly rising VRAM prices , which now account for the bulk of manufacturing costs. The first signs of distress were seen in the high-end and low-end segments, as manufacturers prioritized the high-margin SKUs, dealing a double blow to the market.…