Yes, but the US fired regulators and neutered depts. Now that it’s a kleptocracy and price fixing is just considered good business.
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ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
All of this has happened before, and it will happen again.
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 18 hours ago
Gladaed@feddit.org 20 hours ago
But how is a global demand shock price fixing? I wouldn’t build extra factories to produce the extra memory either. Them coming online would be much later than the likely end of the AI bubble.
SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 18 hours ago
Which is why after nearly 30 years, Crucial will stop selling RAM to consumers - they’re converting consumer-oriented operations to focus just on commercial customers.
Gladaed@feddit.org 18 hours ago
Probably because it just does not make too much sense right now. I would expect the landscape to shift again soon enough. Maybe they were scraping by for a while and just couldn’t carry on. There are many plausible explanations and ram is a commodity market hence very cutthroat.
SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 17 hours ago
Read the article & comments. Seems like they were already kinda heading in that direction anyway, but I doubt it was due to just scraping by so much as the ever-present “maximizing profits” business mandate.
markz@suppo.fi 22 hours ago
I expected someone selling their cat for ram
herrvogel@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
I’m sure someone’s there have been people who sold some catalytic converters that fell of a truck somewhere to buy RAM.
nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 14 hours ago
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herrvogel@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
No idea who that is