Comment on Getting too expensive
Gladaed@feddit.org 19 hours agoBut 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 17 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 17 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 16 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.
Gladaed@feddit.org 15 hours ago
Maximizing profits by increasing price does not work in commodity markets unless you are forming a cartel or monopoly. If your goods are fungible you don’t have customer loyalty.