Today's low personal computer prices, particularly those on machines made by smaller companies, are likely soon to shoot up more than $100 per machine because of a panic in the world memory-chip market.
Prices already have doubled for computer owners who want to expand the capacity of their machines to handle memory-hungry new programs based on Macintosh System 7 or on Microsoft Windows or the OS/2 operating system for IBM compatibles, industry officials said.
Re:China Plans to Ban Exports of Rare Earth Magnet Tech
by mjevans on Thursday April 06, 2023 @05:02AM
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That's close enough that it's probably the event. It might have been slightly oversimplified or 2 decades of neuron decay since I heard about it Nth hand yielding the same effect.
"Semiconductor Industry Faces Problems After Resin Plant Explosion"
https://apnews.com/article/8fe2925b68d34d33f19a53e4892c74a2
It caused a significant spike in DRAM prices:
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1993-08-06-930806...
Today's low personal computer prices, particularly those on machines made by smaller companies, are likely soon to shoot up more than $100 per machine because of a panic in the world memory-chip market.
Prices already have doubled for computer owners who want to expand the capacity of their machines to handle memory-hungry new programs based on Macintosh System 7 or on Microsoft Windows or the OS/2 operating system for IBM compatibles, industry officials said.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1993-08-06-930806...