Corsair is putting Chinese RAM in mainstream market. It won’t quite end the crisis though

Chinese memory makers are pushing cheaper RAM and storage chips into the market, and major PC brands are starting to notice.
Ars Technica

Thanks for the memory: How cheap RAM changes computing

When SimCity 2000 came out, I wanted it really bad. I ended up having to pay almost $500 to play it. I only had a 386SX at the time. The game required a system with 4 MBs of RAM, and I only had 2 MBs.