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Valve Says It Can't Negotiate With RAM Makers At All On Price (kotaku.com)
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[-] Rothe@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago

Unfortunately there aren't a lot of companies manufacturing ram, and the handful that exists are all members of the cartel, and it takes decades to set up a new production. Also the cartel corporations are making much more selling to datacenters than they ever did selling to consumers.

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