Why would anyone bother making consumer RAM for cheap when they can use that manufacturing capacity to make it for the AI datacenters instead, who pay a premium?
When the king orders 1000 cakes, the baker isn’t going to be making bread for the peasants.
People used to sometimes start businesses in order to bring a high demand product to market at a much more affordable price. Often, because that person actually gave a shit about the things they made/sold.
Sometimes these people would even go on to make more money then if they had just went along with the market rather than undercut it.
But all of that requires long term thinking. And some actual character and principle in the people who do it. Which is apparently all just way too much to ask in 2026.
Well, true. People, I.e private companies, can do all kinds of silly things like respect their workers, or think about the future, or prioritise a myriad of things that aren’t just short-term profits and investor pockets. For them, the term growth isn’t just about revenue and a graph on the stock market.
That doesn’t really work with a publicly traded company, especially when the people in charge get a bonus based on quarterly profits, even if the company makes decisions that destroy it in the future. Memory manufacturers know damn well this isn’t in any way a long term sustainable situation, but they are making the most (money) of it while they can.
There is no RAM shortage. There is only greed.
We haven’t run out of the ingredients. The machines that make it have not all been raptured.
This is nothing more than greedy assholes demeaning more money for something they can control.
There is no shortage, don’t call it that or you are feeding their narrative.
Why would anyone bother making consumer RAM for cheap when they can use that manufacturing capacity to make it for the AI datacenters instead, who pay a premium?
When the king orders 1000 cakes, the baker isn’t going to be making bread for the peasants.
People used to sometimes start businesses in order to bring a high demand product to market at a much more affordable price. Often, because that person actually gave a shit about the things they made/sold.
Sometimes these people would even go on to make more money then if they had just went along with the market rather than undercut it.
But all of that requires long term thinking. And some actual character and principle in the people who do it. Which is apparently all just way too much to ask in 2026.
Well, true. People, I.e private companies, can do all kinds of silly things like respect their workers, or think about the future, or prioritise a myriad of things that aren’t just short-term profits and investor pockets. For them, the term growth isn’t just about revenue and a graph on the stock market.
That doesn’t really work with a publicly traded company, especially when the people in charge get a bonus based on quarterly profits, even if the company makes decisions that destroy it in the future. Memory manufacturers know damn well this isn’t in any way a long term sustainable situation, but they are making the most (money) of it while they can.
Exactly. Public trading puts pressures on a company that go against its interests and the interests of its employees.
Frankly, public trading is a terrible idea. It has never improved anything. Just made everything worse.
This is where Id put my fab
IF I HAD ONE!!!
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