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Scientist says RAM pricing has risen to normalized 2007 levels, AI shortage undid 20 years of progress in a matter of months — memory prices had been falling exponentially for decades (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

Was there some peak in 2007 for some reason? I don’t remember that.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    RAM manufacturers were colluding to keep prices high, as I recall. There were convictions.

    Edit: Back when governments actually did anything about all this bullshit. Ah those were the days.

    Edit edit: Hooooly cripes. This should just about tell you all you need to know about how shitty corpos are: On 5 April 2006, Sun Woo Lee, Senior Manager of DRAM at Samsung Electronics, entered into a plea bargain with the US Government for his involvement in the price fixing conspiracy. Following the plea agreement he was sentenced to 8 months in prison and fined US$250,000. Lee was subsequently promoted to President of Samsung Germany in 2009, and then President of Samsung Europe in 2014.

    Conviction = promotion if you made the company money

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