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hamid@crazypeople.online 3 weeks agoActually this is incorrect. The RAM manufacturers operate as a cartel and purposefully restrict the supply of RAM so they can sell less at much higher margins. They have been caught doing this 20 years ago and they are doing it again but now everyone is buying their excuse.
^ this is it.
It also takes time to increase production so when they spin down to reduce supply they cannot just immediately spin it up again.
This is why we’re looking at “shit sucks” until around 2028 and why we’re all hoping the Chinese companies role in and take their legs out from under them.
It’s already starting to happen, Corsair is using CMXT memory now.
Whitebrow@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Correct. They’re also manufacturing slightly less than they did the year prior iirc.