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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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[–] 12 points 1 month ago

You say that like it wasn't intentional demand manipulation on the part of Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron. They have been colluding for years to manipulate the market between the three of them, so of course the system collapsed as soon as something they didn't see coming happened (COVID, then the AI boom)

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