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The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about (www.theverge.com)
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[–] 28 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Go ahead, make a lucrative market for consumer ram, see how fast china figures out how ot start filling that need :)

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I’m fairly certain that spinning up RAM fabs isn’t super quick nor something that doesn’t require the most cutting edge tech.

    China is definitely ahead of the US in a lot of tech, but unless they do invade Taiwan they might not have quite a deep enough bench.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Ram doesn't require anywhere near the tech we need for processors.

    They're going this kind of thing for processors

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiUHjLxm3V0

    Ram uses tech that's way older. and for our needs, they can just stack smaller, low density chips

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    I’ve not missed a Veritasium video in a long time 😄. I’m sure that RAM is much easier to produce, but DRR5 is pretty complex still, and is what has been snapped up in whole by these AI companies. I’m actually wondering if we’ll see a resurgence of DDR4 motherboards, as those fabs are likely around still, just likely more idle if used at all.

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