United Kingdom, Nov. 26 -- Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has issued a blunt warning about the skyrocketing cost of RAM, saying the surge - driven by the AI boom - could squeeze high-end gaming hardware for years.

Prices for the memory chips have exploded in recent weeks, with consumer-grade DDR5 kits jumping as much as 110 per cent month-over-month.

The spike isn't coming from gamers, console makers, or PC enthusiasts, but from hyperscalers racing to fuel AI infrastructure.

On X, Sweeney wrote: "RAM price increases will be a real problem for high-end gaming for several years."

The Fortnite studio boss added that chip fabs are diverting top-tier DRAM capacity to AI data centres, where companies like OpenAI, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and ...