Comment on HP reportedly eyes Chinese suppliers for DRAM as global shortage sparks shake-up — analyst says memory chips are commodities that can easily be replaced

• mechoman444@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Once again there is no shortage. My local microcenter center has hundreds of bundles in stock. They’re just super expensive because posts like this keep saying they’re a shortage.

  There is no ram shortage. There was never a ram shortage.

  One company decided to not sell consumer ram anymore and the collective world lost their minds.

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  • Senal@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That’s a very narrow slice of a supply chain to be using it as a basis for conclusions like that.

    I don’t disagree that the “shortage” is artificial, i’m just saying that your local store having stock and raising prices isn’t a good basis for determining overall supply chain health.

    Like looking out your window and seeing rain, so obviously it must be raining everywhere.

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  • Crozekiel@lemmy.zip ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    One company decided to not sell consumer ram anymore

    One of the only 3 companies making it. And a second has mentioned following suit.

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