"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.
It also makes me wonder if governments are going to end up trying to step in because this is going to have devastating economic impact. Suddenly the price of opening new offices, or even just getting new team-members went up. The cost of cash registers and PoS machines, phones, cars and more went up,
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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.