The RAM situation isn't what it looks like and the reasons for the sudden increase of RAM prices, along with all those deals signed and the exit of various companies from consumer electronics (RAM, GPUs etc.) is in equal measure clever, profoundly dumb and a harbinger of doom. I'll explain in shortest and clearest possible terms. The background is this. Consumer technology, meaning PC's, smartphones, gaming consoles and the Internet itself have peaked years ago. The stupid among you perpetually "upgraded" and bought "premium phones" (Iphones) whenever new hardware came out, but the more tech minded among you have realized long ago that for all practical purposes a PC from more than a decade ago is a perfectly viable and usable machine with no downsides. Phones have remained virtually unchanged as well. Any sort of "advancement" was pure grift and hype whipped up by marketing agencies to keep the ball rolling. There have been similar grifts in the meantime - NFT's, Meta and it's Metaverse (and a lot of copycats), Apple's VR shit, Microslop trying to make you trash good hardware for Win 11 and now AI. What does all this indicate? The obvious. Technology isn't stagnating, it isn't dead. It merely matured and reached its natural "end" in terms of progress. This is a good thing for all of us and Humanity as a whole. The Internet was perfect, PC's were perfect, all was well. However all these big tech companies are so bloated and used to being valued in the trillions they cannot accept that they're passe and that the entire industry would naturally downsize if left to its natural course. So they chose the "final frontier" of bullshit called AI and tried to force everyone to go along with it. And it's not working. Only inferior people use AI and AI fundamentally has no purpose, it only makes everything worse ranging from environmental impact to electricity prices to slopification.
>>107873245The gamble isn't paying off and all those trillions in corpo evaluation. which were already a bubble BEFORE AI are now beyond a bubble, beyond bloat, beyond raw fiction. None of it has any sort of semblance with reality and yet has no usecase or purpose. After bleeding America's everything away and squandering its generational wealth on smoke and mirrors the music is very, very slowly winding down. But it is winding down, both on AI and America as a whole. The gamble did not pay off. So, why the price increases? Simple. The US government and its oligarchs (ranging from Musk to Altman etc., all of them basically) are trying to make (you) and everyone else subsidize the AI grift. This is the actual reason for the deals with Micron, Nvidia and so forth. Money is running out but they want their total surveillance tool, and in more basic terms the US economy as a whole has been so bled dry by the AI grift it cannot afford for AI to fail while at the same time money is finally running out. But AI will fail and it has already failed. Economic collapse of the US is inevitable. As for (you) and me and everyone else, the only logical course of action is the obvious. Don't buy overpriced hardware and avoid using AI at all costs. A PC you can buy for 50 USD from 2012 is just as good as a brand new one with top of the line hardware. Because tech has peaked, as I stated. We're moving in the direction of a post-big tech corpo world and AI is their last gamble to stop that. Let it fail, be free.
>Only inferior people use AI and AI fundamentally has no purposehad me until thisfiltered
>>107873276Good morning saar.
>>107873245>computers and consoomer electronics aren't fashionable and isn't growing anymore>therefore hardware tech companies were in a bubble before the AI meme, and they created another meme bubble to fuck you, the consoomer in the asswould make sense if tech in general wasn't growing and if software companies didn't bloat their piece of shit software all the time. but there are tons of techs out there that require RAM, CPUs and SoCs that need RAM.IMO, in reality, this is yet another decision (the nth one in decades, with n -> inf+) by the cartel to raise prices, since they were "too cheap" before. and, since Trump is president, and everyone around him is as corrupt as him, no one gives a shit about collusion.I hope china takes advantage of this and fucks them all in the ass.
>>107873245tl;dr
What an needlessly long winded and esoteric way of saying "contracts are negotiated well ahead of time, and are no longer being offered due to DRAM fabs switching to HBM production, therefore drastically reducing production in the face of constant demand, therefore increasing prices".Also, what allows AI companies to so drastically outbid you is the backing of the fucking government. This allows everyone to pump risk free money into these fucking companies because they know if worse comes to worst your tax dollars will save them. So you are paying for the privilege of getting ass raped in the DRAM/GPU market.Grow the fuck up nigger.
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>>107873359>contracts are negotiated well ahead of timeok, and they could easily produce more. yet they collectively decided not to. how come?>DRAM fabs switching to HBM productionsource? how can they not sell DRAM with so many products using it?do you, like the OP, think computers and smartphones are the only things using RAM chips? kek>the gibmintdo you even know how much cash these companies have? the theory behind all this AI datacenters bullshit is that they had so much money (that the gubmint forced them to repatriate back to the US if they wanted to avoid paying taxes) that they'd rather spend it on some bullshit than just keep it doing nothing (reminder: inflation everywhere in the world was 25%+ after the pandemic).
>>107873633>ok, and they could easily produce more. yet they collectively decided not to. how come?Just a cohen--I mean coincidence, goyim.Jokes aside, you have my attention and I'd like to hear more about this.
>>107873797re: cartels. here are some (old) examples from google:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM_price_fixing_scandal>In 2002, the [US DoJ]... began a probe into the activities of ... (DRAM) manufacturers in response to claims by US computer makers, including Dell and Gateway, that inflated DRAM pricing was causing lost profits and hindering their effectiveness in the marketplace.>To date, five manufacturers have pleaded guilty to their involvement in an international price-fixing conspiracy between July 1, 1998, and June 15, 2002, including Hynix, Infineon, Micron Technology, Samsung, and Elpida.https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_12_1317>The infringements found by the Commission therefore cover the entire European Economic Area (EEA). Chunghwa, LG Electronics, Philips and Samsung SDI participated in both cartels, while Panasonic, Toshiba, MTPD (currently a Panasonic subsidiary) and Technicolor (formerly Thomson) participated only in the cartel for television tubes. Chunghwa received full immunity from fines under the Commission's 2006 Leniency Notice for the two cartels, as it was the first to reveal their existence to the Commission.https://web.archive.org/web/20210301221139/https://www.pbwt.com/antitrust-update-blog/cartel-suits-filed-against-capacitor-manufacturers-cooperation-authorities>... class actions has been filed in the past two weeks charging Panasonic, Samsung, and other electronics manufacturers...>The investigations were reportedly sparked when one manufacturer blew the whistle on its purported co-conspirators and applied to the two agencies for leniency. These investigations appear to reflect three recent developments in enforcement. First, they demonstrate the tough stance of the DOJ’s Antitrust Division, which in 2012 obtained a $500 million criminal fine from a Taiwan-based LCD manufacturer and $1.1 billion in total criminal fines.re: >AI datacenters bullshitI'll look for my source
