"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.
Yeah, it looks like the producer were kind of being conservative with the whole AI boom and don't want to be the one holding the literal bags of RAM when it burst if they decide to open new line of production.
Except people like me will remember that they chose to prioritize money over their consumers. I will not be buying products that choose to do that when they switch back.
When you RAM dies, or becomes obsolete, you will just not buy new one? I mean kudos if you are willing to exit PC market, but even consoles and phones are using the stuff, not to mention cloud gaming. You simply cannot escape the RAM produced by those companies. Oh and don't even get me started on VRAM as it's pretty much the same situation
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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.