Samsung, who've been accused of worsening the RAM crisis via price fixing, reckon components will only get more expensive in 2027

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/samsung-whove-been-accused-of-worsening-the-ram-crisis-via-price-fixing-reckon-components-will-only-get-more-expensive-in-2027

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state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de · 33 pts · 35d (1 reply)

Why? Because we set the price and have already budgeted the earnings.

givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 35d

If we don't overcharge consumers how can we dump truckloads of money on AI data centers no one wants?!?

JcbAzPx@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 35d

Price fixer fixes prices of price fixed RAM. Tells world to go fuck itself.

shweddy@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 35d (2 replies)

China needs to set up ram manufacturing yesterday

hperrin@lemmy.ca · 21 pts · 35d

They have been.

SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org · 5 pts · 35d

I hope to be wrong, but I suspect that this will only add one chair to the "Happy RAM Makers Cartel Club"

hperrin@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 35d

Why not just enlist people into 7 years of voluntary servitude if they want a single RAM chip? Cuts out the middle man.

dil@piefed.zip · 1 pts · 33d

are people still buying and upgrading? I'll just wait til my stuff breaks now