Samsung's 60% DRAM Price Hike Signals a New Phase of Global Memory Tightening

Re:Samsung's 60% DRAM Price Hike Signals a New Phase of Glob... by refurb on Friday November 21, 2025 @11:12PM (#46012050)

> If a big company and a few small companies all have identical costs for producing a product, society is better served by having it produced by the few small companies than the one big company.

How so? Costs will be higher with multiple small products, resulting in higher costs for customers. That's the opposite of "society is served better".

We draw the line at monopolies, which makes sense.

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Re:Samsung's 60% DRAM Price Hike Signals a New Phase of Glob... by lenkite on Saturday November 22, 2025 @03:46AM (#46013248)

By the time a company becomes a monopoly, it is immensely powerful - politically and monetarily - getting rid of it or splitting it up is near impossible. Monopoly laws are near impossible to apply as the corporation has sufficient money and influence to turn politicians into servile puppets.

Best to nip corpos before they gain more revenue than a nation state and become "too big to fail".

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Re:Samsung's 60% DRAM Price Hike Signals a New Phase of Glob... by octoberfranklin on Saturday November 22, 2025 @09:39AM (#46015140)

> > all have identical costs

> Costs will be higher

Read it again, please.

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Re:Samsung's 60% DRAM Price Hike Signals a New Phase of Glob... by refurb on Sunday November 23, 2025 @11:08AM (#46024555)

We know large companies have volume efficiency, so it’s not a realistic scenario.

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