Comment on RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices
Vandals_handle@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Lived in the Silicon Valley in the 1990’s, when the price of RAM exploded with the web, armed robberies of manufacturing plants and warehouses for RAM became a thing for a few years.
Insert <Aw shit, here we go again . meme>
But now the surveillance capabilities of both the state and large corporations have been ranked up to infinity and beyond. I’m expecting a partnership announcement between Micron and Raytheon any day now, where Raytheon gets free DDR5 and Micron gets armed and autonomous security drones.
Kind of \s, kind of not
sobchak@programming.dev 5 days ago
I think the RAM manufacturers were found to be guilty of colluding/price-fixing in that case (maybe this case too).
azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Altman secretly secured 40 % of the world’s DRAM manufacturing capacity last month. Supposedly Samsung and HK Hynix weren’t aware they were both signing up for it.
That alone would be enough to call collusion if it wasn’t an obvious play to strangle his competition by literally choking them out of hardware.
mooreslawisdead.com/…/sam-altman-s-dirty-dram-dea…
sobchak@programming.dev 5 days ago
OpenAI just bought the raw wafers? WTF.