Anyway, that's the kind of market that governments always need to act upon and either supply directly or regulate intensively.
Maximizing profit is the only sane way to play a rigged game
But my guess is that this shortage is short-lived (mostly because of the threat above). There's no OPEC for tech.
Being shocked that companies try their best to deal with the bad cards they have been dealt with should be expected. The money system simply cannot express the concept of surplus capital or abundance. Positive interest means capital is scarce, so capital must be made scarce even if there is abundance.
Before you come up with the argument that the interest rate is supposed to reflect a market property and therefore does not force itself upon the market, remember that I said that there is an artificial restriction in the money system that prevents the state of the real market to be expressed. The non-profit economy has never had a chance to exist, because our tools are too crude.
The non-profit economy includes resilient production with slight/minor overproduction.
Think about how stupid the idea of a guaranteed 0% yield bond is (aka cash). The government obligates itself to accept an infinite amount of debt if the real return on capital would ever fall negative. No wonder it has an incentive to inflate the value of the bond away.
The manufacturers are scumbags is more likely answer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM_price_fixing_scandal