Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition
by hatethehate on Thursday November 12, 2026 @02:05PM
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RAM prices are not artificially inflated. Everyone wants to run models that require 1TiB of RAM locally. AI agents utilize RAM on every computer more than ever before. The fever dream is imagining these prices are ever coming back down without serious fab investment.
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Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition
by TheGamerUncle on Thursday November 12, 2026 @02:47PM
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There is blatant and open collusion between everyone that can invest in fabs in order to "slow down" the investment and the supply in order to maintain the prices as high as possible, as long as possible.
https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/articles/ram-crisis-one...
"The lawsuit also points towards similar collusion between the companies in the past. In 2005, SK Hynix and Samsung were fined $180 million and $300 million respectively after pleading guilty to price-fixing DRAM pricing. It is suggested that the same occurred between 2016 and 2018 when prices spiked again, ..."