Expect RAM prices to stay high with Micron locking in deals for 5 years

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• ramble81@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  China will capture the consumer RAM segment in the future and then all of these companies will be moaning when the bubble pops and clamoring for protectionism.

  Basically the same thing that’s happening with cars in the US, and we’re the ones getting screwed.

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• MalReynolds@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Fuck Micron, we will remember. It’s in their interest to pump up the bubble (with 16 SCAs announced by them with no disclosure as to who, which they would if it were anyone important, can we stop reporting press releases as fact, please). When it pops, or China eats their lunch, it will likely be worthwhile to just go insolvent and reincorporate rather than keep to this SCA for anything at scale. More grist for the IPO / stock pump hype mill.

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• Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Surely if the bubble pops then micron are doing great as the deals are already agreed, but that RAM won’t be worth what companies paid for it either. What would they do with it, try and sell it off to recover some of the cost of the RAM they no longer need?

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  • DdCno1@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    It doesn’t really matter. It’s an oligopol and they can set the prices however they want. There’s no alternative, since everyone - businesses and consumers alike - needs their product.

    China can’t and won’t be able to compete, since they are far too much behind in manufacturing, chasing a moving target.

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  • bingrazer@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Or micron reintroduces consumer ram while their competitors are locked into the bubble price

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    • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      At this rate I suspect by 2035 I will be running a pi zero 3/4 as my main PC.

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• 87Six@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  As if their deals mean a damn

  They mean as much as those investments into OpenAI

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• absquatulate@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Don’t think anybody expected micron to return to the consumer market once they got on the gravy train. What I wonder is whether they’re like nvidia now, actually producing, shipping and getting paid, or are those SCAs just promises and more IOUs? Because just reading “micron exponential growth” everywhere does not inspire confidence.

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  • Bakkoda@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What the knock on effect of production on the scale they all claim? Wouldn’t there be excess low bin product? 16gb single sided socks because the 32gb failed qc? I know that’s a terrible analogy but you get where I’m going. There are almost no signs that the level of mfg that’s being claimed is actually happening. It’s all just dollar signs on paper getting pushed around so someone can say profits.

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