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Dntknwitall It will be hilarious if a Chinese company single handedly beats down the big 3 and brings north America cheap ram again. I say if anyone can do it it is China. Reply
PEnns Dntknwitall said: It will be hilarious if a Chinese company single handedly beats down the big 3 and brings north America cheap ram again. I say if anyone can do it it is China. …only for the current administration to declare Chinese RAM , you guessed it, a "National Security issue" and bans their sale or use by anyone outside China (there was talk of that just a few day ago!). The RAM misery shall continue!! Reply
thestryker Dntknwitall said: It will be hilarious if a Chinese company single handedly beats down the big 3 and brings north America cheap ram again. I say if anyone can do it it is China. This will not be happening. The increased production out of CXMT is about satiating demand while making lots of money not about expanding worldwide marketshare. The Chinese memory makers are now picking clients and dictating prices, four people familiar with the matter told Reuters. In some cases, they are charging more than their larger South Korean rivals, Samsung and SK Hynix, as skyrocketing demand for memory chips forces Chinese buyers to pay ever-higher prices. https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-memory-chip-makers-ride-ai-boom-new-power-us-scrutiny-2026-07-24/ Reply
usertests thestryker said: This will not be happening. The increased production out of CXMT is about satiating demand while making lots of money not about expanding worldwide marketshare. Here's some information to corroborate what you're saying: China Is Coming For Micron's Thick Margins CXMT's DDR5 die is roughly 40% larger than Samsung's equivalent, which means fewer usable chips per wafer and a structurally worse cost base, not a better one. The larger die size is itself a byproduct of working without EUV: older lithography tools can't pack circuits as densely, so CXMT needs more silicon to do the same job. Its cost per bit remains more than 30% above the three leading suppliers, suggesting its current profitability is a function of unusually strong pricing across the whole market, not genuine product superiority. Chinese Memory Chips Accelerate Global Supply Chain Penetration: MSI Validates CXMT DDR5, Samsung Profits Surge 18-Fold No "Fire-Sale" Pricing: CXMT Rejects a Price War Unlike the historical path where Chinese manufacturing captured markets through low-cost dumping, CXMT has adopted a highly pragmatic "follower pricing" strategy during this cycle. According to data from semiconductor analysis firm SemiAnalysis, the average selling price of CXMT's DRAM in the first quarter was only about 5% to 10% lower than that of the three major players, defying earlier market fears of a large-scale price war. Reply
Alastor01 Dntknwitall said: It will be hilarious if a Chinese company single handedly beats down the big 3 and brings north America cheap ram again. I say if anyone can do it it is China. Unfortunately, that will not be happening. The RAM itself is of lower tier. The cost is marginally lower. They are only doing that to make some fat profit, not to bring cheap product. Reply
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