So… the major manufacturers, which operate across different continents with notoriously uneasy geopolitical tensions, are secretly operating a silicon cartel?

You mean the exact thing that happened before and that ended with prison time and fines for the people involved?

Truly an unimaginable and ludicrous suggestion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM_industry_price_fixing#200...

OPEC that in an equivalent situation was desperately trying to increase oil production, to discourage looking for alternatives to oil? This OPEC?