Memory prices have skyrocketed recently and brick-and-mortar retailers are converting to “spot pricing” or “market pricing” for RAM kits, which means pricing is determined at the point of sale based on current market conditions. The most egregious example we’ve seen is from u/CassTexas showing blocked-out DDR5 price tags at MicroCenter with

We reported last week on some leaked details for Intel’s upcoming Arrow Lake Refresh processors. As a refresh, these new chips don’t seem to do much to differentiate themselves from the extant Core Ultra 200S family, but one small upgrade mentioned in that leak was a move to DDR5-7200 memory as standard. Now, we have confirmation on that direct