I recall there being some sort of "memory shortage" in the 1993-1994 time range that for at least a while actually *increased* the price of some commodity RAM. But yes, prices collapsed *immensely* in the 1995-1996 ball park. (The introduction of EDO roughly coincided with this. Whether there was actually casual relationship like more plants coming online I don't know.) A 16MB SIMM that might have still cost almost $500 in late 1995 was suddenly $120 by the end of 1996. I also remember devices like "SIMM Savers" cropping up in droves around that time, my theory about them in retrospect is they existed solely so people who got nailed by the high pre-'96 prices for RAM could feel like they were getting more mileage out of their investment rather than just admitting they got scr**ed and moving on.

(I never really understood them myself because prior to the Pentium era I'd always made do with measly amounts of RAM (my 1992-ish 486 didn't have enough to bother "saving"), and when Pentium-class machines got cheap enough for me to get one (also in the 1996 ballpark) a decent amount of RAM barely cost any more than an empty SIMMsaver.)