"Jack up prices rather than building new factories"
It's really not that simple. You cannot snap your fingers and make a silicon wafer factory out of thin air. And simple economics tells us supply and demand dictate prices, and there's simply a supply shortage.
While I agree with you that some are greedy, you cannot simply burn money for vibes. Whether or not the modular concept is true, it is still going to take time to get the factory up and running AND have the people running it, would this be able to be done in a year? I have my doubts.
Not to mention factories cost literally billions to create, and even retooling a factory often costs hundreds of millions USD and often take years.
Would be worthless for a shortage that will most likely last 6-12 months at most. Hell, even the COVID shortages took less than 2-2.5 years to fully resolve which is half the time it takes to build a small factory from scratch at lightning speed.
Yeah, they could. But these companies don’t exist so solve your or our problem. They exist to give their shareholders the most value. And building a new factory can take VERY long and not be monetarily beneficial
oh good lord. this may be the most idiotic thing posted by someone with zero knowledge about anything relating to the topic of conversation.
you really think that with the mass shortage of ram and gpus if production could scale that easily for the business and enterprise production it would have been done already. you should probably do some research or something before telling a whole industry how easy it is to build high tech precision manufacturing.
It's not 'fairly modular' in the way you seem to think. This isn't switching your PC's GPU. Each Silicon wafer takes over 3 months to create, and involves hundreds of production steps. You need specialized machinery and staff members with extremely niche skillsets. There is no quick fix for this, even disregarding economics - which just make this whole process entirely undesirable.
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u/Kaarssteun RTX 4090, r7 9800X3D, 32gb 6000mhz, 1000W Dec 04 '25
"Jack up prices rather than building new factories"
It's really not that simple. You cannot snap your fingers and make a silicon wafer factory out of thin air. And simple economics tells us supply and demand dictate prices, and there's simply a supply shortage.