If they made DIMMs with CXMT chips, they wouldn’t need a fab (CXMT presumably has access to those). ASUS already has the PCB production and pick-and-place factories.
Comment on ASUS plans to produce RAM amid shortage problems
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Asus won’t be producing it. They’ll be slapping their name on some kits produced by another company.
kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours ago
infeeeee@lemmy.zip 16 hours ago
But isn’t the chip supply is already limited? It won’t really help with the shortage.
kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours ago
CXMT just recently demonstrated the ability to manufacture RAM chips. The existing supply is all from Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron. A fourth player should increase the supply.
infeeeee@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
I looked up cxmt as I wasnt familiar with it. It’s from mainland China, while Asus is from Taiwan, do they want to sell the limited supply to the rivals?
Denvil@lemmy.ml 18 hours ago
How hard can it possibly be, you just get those casings that go around the ram, and then fill them up with ram juice. They could even recycle old ram by topping them up again!
/s
Zink@programming.dev 13 hours ago
Yep! The most expensive equipment they might need is a magic smoke compressor, if that.