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Huawei is building its own DRAM fab, and it could reshape RAM prices for everyone (www.xda-developers.com)
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[–] 29 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It is way too late to be starting a new chip fab for it to be relevant to the current market. If they are producing reliable chips 5 years from now that'll be fast.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    China speed will kick in and it will be next year they will own the market.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Not likely. It doesn't matter how much slave labor you throw at it, getting a new fabrication machine to the necessary precision to make modern chips requires a lot of time.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I mean making the machines to make chips and making a factory that uses said machines are two different things.

    There are already factories in China making DDR5 and DDR4 ram now days.

    Huawei would just provide the support and resources needed to scale up a new large factory.

    No slave labor needed. All you need is a modern, advanced, high skill, responsive industrial base which China has.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I mean making the machines to make chips and making a factory that uses said machines are two different things.

    True.

    There are already factories in China making DDR5 and DDR4 ram now days.

    Are they actually fabricating the silicon, or just packaging it?

    No slave labor needed. All you need is a modern, advanced, high skill, responsive industrial base which China has.

    Sure, like the people working at Foxconn:

    https://truthout.org/articles/a-suicide-survivor-the-life-of-a-chinese-migrant-worker-at-foxconn/

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    They are making it from scratch. There are lots of sources but this is the first one I found. I assume they package it as well.

    https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ddr5/chinese-memory-maker-cxmt-enters-the-mainstream-consumer-memory-with-corsair-vengeance-ddr5-kit-chinese-made-dram-emerges-as-an-antidote-for-crushing-shortages

    Foxcom assembles sub models into complete products. Still higher than slave labor level skills, but not as high as chip fabrication I admit. You need a skill base to assemble phones at a high level.

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