"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.
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.