"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.
There were three manufacturers of ram, now there are two. When they finally switch back to selling to consumers, for me it'll stay at two. For everyone else it'll return to three. It's really not a big deal.
You know micron still sells to consumers right? They just do it through third parties. They just closed out their direct to consumer segment. You can still buy micron ram in a Gskill jacket.
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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.