sanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 hours agoHuawei is building its own DRAM fab, and it could reshape RAM prices for everyonewww.xda-developers.comexternal-linkmessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up191cross-posted to: pcmasterrace@lemmy.world
arrow-up191external-linkHuawei is building its own DRAM fab, and it could reshape RAM prices for everyonewww.xda-developers.comsanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 hours agomessage-square13fedilinkcross-posted to: pcmasterrace@lemmy.world
minus-squaremholiv@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·4 hours agoI mean making the machines to make chips and making a factory that uses said machines are two different things. There are already factories in China making DDR5 and DDR4 ram now days. Huawei would just provide the support and resources needed to scale up a new large factory. No slave labor needed. All you need is a modern, advanced, high skill, responsive industrial base which China has.
minus-squareNaibofTabr@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 hour ago I mean making the machines to make chips and making a factory that uses said machines are two different things. True. There are already factories in China making DDR5 and DDR4 ram now days. Are they actually fabricating the silicon, or just packaging it? No slave labor needed. All you need is a modern, advanced, high skill, responsive industrial base which China has. Sure, like the people working at Foxconn: https://truthout.org/articles/a-suicide-survivor-the-life-of-a-chinese-migrant-worker-at-foxconn/
minus-squaremholiv@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 hour agoThey are making it from scratch. There are lots of sources but this is the first one I found. I assume they package it as well. https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ddr5/chinese-memory-maker-cxmt-enters-the-mainstream-consumer-memory-with-corsair-vengeance-ddr5-kit-chinese-made-dram-emerges-as-an-antidote-for-crushing-shortages Foxcom assembles sub models into complete products. Still higher than slave labor level skills, but not as high as chip fabrication I admit. You need a skill base to assemble phones at a high level.
I mean making the machines to make chips and making a factory that uses said machines are two different things.
There are already factories in China making DDR5 and DDR4 ram now days.
Huawei would just provide the support and resources needed to scale up a new large factory.
No slave labor needed. All you need is a modern, advanced, high skill, responsive industrial base which China has.
True.
Are they actually fabricating the silicon, or just packaging it?
Sure, like the people working at Foxconn:
https://truthout.org/articles/a-suicide-survivor-the-life-of-a-chinese-migrant-worker-at-foxconn/
They are making it from scratch. There are lots of sources but this is the first one I found. I assume they package it as well.
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ddr5/chinese-memory-maker-cxmt-enters-the-mainstream-consumer-memory-with-corsair-vengeance-ddr5-kit-chinese-made-dram-emerges-as-an-antidote-for-crushing-shortages
Foxcom assembles sub models into complete products. Still higher than slave labor level skills, but not as high as chip fabrication I admit. You need a skill base to assemble phones at a high level.