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donkeyfigs Totally sane and normal and good that we live in a world where companies are allowed to just suddenly abandon consumers to focus on making maximum profit off a technology nobody really wants or has found a real use for, leaving consumers stuck to try to pick through the ashes at skyrocketing prices. Reply
Marlin1975 Our product will stay expensive says person who gets paid to justify the price of said product. Reply
Notton Didn't the DRAM/NAND makers say it would last until 2028 just 3 or 4 months ago? Another 3 months, they'll say 2035. Reply
magbarn A more consumer friendly President would use the Defense Production Act to force Micron to make only DRAM instead of HBM to help stop this madness. Reply
hollywoodrose magbarn said: A more consumer friendly President would use the Defense Production Act to force Micron to make only DRAM instead of HBM to help Also, an announcement like this seems like it’s designed to provoke one reaction: “Oh no! I was going to try to wait it out before buying that 64GB RAM upgrade! Looks like there’s no chance of that now. I better fork over my $1000 before things get even worse! Maybe it’ll turn out that I even got a “bargain”! Boy am I lucky!” Just big business being its usual scummy, slimy, repulsive, disgusting self. Btw wasn’t there an article that just came out saying how the chip shortage wasn’t predicted to last as long as previously thought so the dynamic duopoly decided not to increase production? Situations like this are what government regulations are for. Unfortunately we don’t have one so bad for us. We have organized crime, yes, but nothing resembling a lawful government. Reply
80251 Will the shortage of chip fabs eventually affect CPU manufacturers as well? The news just gets worse and worse. Maybe I should buy some DDR5 memory as an investment now? A kind of tech commodity? And I wanted to wait for zen 6. Maybe I shouldn't wait. Thanks AI! Reply
LabRat 891 Seems like bull. Any industry seeing exceptional demand for a long-period, immediately works to increase production. As demand tapers to a new norm, the surplus drives down prices. Clearly, DRAM manufacturers never want to see the price driven back down, and are refusing to grow production to meet long-term demand. Reply
thesyndrome Chey said SK Hynix is preparing measures to help stabilize DRAM prices, and that CEO Kwak Noh-jung is expected to announce a plan soon. He didn’t elaborate on what those measures would involve, though. Oh, I have an idea for how to stabilise prices! How about you put a ****ing purchase cap on large orders from businesses so that you don't dedicate you entire wafer production FOR THE NEXT FOUR YEARS to one or two clients, who are using it for a technology that has still not made a profit?????? Reply
leclod I don't get how you people get angry every time some tech product's price inflates. Like you deserve and were promised what you want for cheap. To me it looks like kids ranting. You were lucky and now you're not. Reply
Tom791 Let’s see. “Video card prices are high because of miners!” “Hard Drive prices are high because of miners!” “Memory prices are high because of AI!” Scam, scam, scam. Nobody buys it anymore. It’s just excessive profit taking. Reply
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- Investor positioning can change fast
- Volatility remains possible near catalysts
- Macro rates and liquidity can dominate flows
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