ASUS plans to produce RAM amid shortage problems

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• woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  [Update - 12/26/2025] - Taiwanese outlet, CNA, has received a statement from ASUS regarding the DRAM rumor and stated that it currently has no plans to invest in a memory wafer fab.

  wccftech.com/asus-enter-dram-market-next-year-to-…

  Lesson hopefully learned: Don’t link to the regurgitation of a regurgitation of a regurgitation of a Persian language article. At the very least go back the first English version of the article chain.

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  • JustARegularNerd@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨53⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    I know this is said in hindsight, but the way the first paragraph is written sets off alarm bells of weird reporting, and I imagine probably was what triggered you to look into it further.

    ASUS plans to produce RAM amid shortage problems, hoping to ease the rising costs of laptops and gaming PCs.

    While I get that Asus naturally would want to be competitive, why would they (from an economic standpoint) care about ‘easing the rising costs’ of their products. They would have actual motives like trying to be independent of these major memory manufacturers.

    Reports say the company is preparing to manufacture DDR5 memory by 2026.

    2026 is in less than 5 days. If this instead said “by the end of 2026” or longer I’d have a better time believing that claim.

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  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I keep trying to hammer this on Lemmy, but no one listens :(. Most mods aren’t interested in information hygiene either.

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    • ArchAengelus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Ask if you can join the mod team of your favorite community. Worst they can say is no.

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  • weew@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Or the Taiwanese one, arrive all these companies are based in on Taiwan

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  • Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That kinda gives the impression that English news is the only real news, doesn’t it?

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• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Asus won’t be producing it. They’ll be slapping their name on some kits produced by another company.

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  • Denvil@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨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

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    • Zink@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yep! The most expensive equipment they might need is a magic smoke compressor, if that.

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  • kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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    • infeeeee@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      But isn’t the chip supply is already limited? It won’t really help with the shortage.

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• mrbn@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  ASUS realizes there’s a shit ton of money to be made on ram.

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• Soulphite@reddthat.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yall are dumb… just download more RAM… jeez.

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  • W3dd1e@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    YoU wOuLdN’t DoWnLoAd A rAm

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    • Cort@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      I wouldn’t download a team but what about ewe

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• Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  But who produces the RAM-producing machines?

  (Yes, it’s gold rush time)

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• Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That won’t help with the pricing, ASUS just tries to get a slice of the cake.

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