• RxBrad@infosec.pub
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    2 days ago

    25% plan to buy this year. 40% in the next two years.

    RAM prices have quadrupled since this time last year. So if only 25% as many people buy this year than last year, then the line still went up for the RAM companies.

    This is a huge windfall for them, and there is absolutely zero reason for them to go back to $75/32GB DDR5 kits.

    Shame that nobody is capable of restraint…

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      there is absolutely zero reason for them to go back to $75/32GB DDR5 kits.

      There’s enough memory manufacturers that as long as the cartel was successfully busted when I forget which government took action against them last year, that they should start competing on price again as soon as demand re-normalizes

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        The vast majority of the market is made by only three companies who all have dramatically raised prices. Sk Hynix, Samsung and Micron.

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        Micron sailed off into the sunset, flipping the bird at consumers with both hands. Hynix & Samsung are equally quadruple-pricing versus a year ago. All of them are seeing insane, record profits.

        Unless a government steps in and does something crazy like declaring RAM a subsidy & setting price controls… this is just the new normal.

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          Micron only killed their consumer memory division, they’re still making memory for b2b customers, so they can still affect and be affected by market forces when it comes to memory pricing