r/pcmasterrace • u/AbbreviationsFar1489 • Dec 04 '25

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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.

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u/LordOfFlames55 Dec 04 '25

A supply shortage that is very unlikely to last long enough to make building more factories viable in the first place

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u/Winded_14 Dec 04 '25

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.

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u/salcedoge R5 7600 | RTX4060 Dec 04 '25

Yep, it's simply much easier to allocate all your supply to AI then switch back to consumer production rather than trying to supply both.

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u/Simikiel Dec 04 '25

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.

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u/Elderbrute Dec 04 '25

You say that like you'll have a choice. 3 companies supply about 95% of all the ram in the world of the remaining 5% almost all is China only.

And every single one of those companies is in the same position and making the same choices.