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>I've been in tech for ~40 years now and I've never seen anything like this. Then how do you not remember the DRAM shortage of the late 1980s?
by TMWNN 8mo ago
>I've been in tech for ~40 years now and I've never seen anything like this.
Then how do you not remember the DRAM shortage of the late 1980s?
- reenorap 8mo agoAt worse back in 1988 it impacted only PCs. This shortage in 2026 is more consequential across the board and impacts consumer electronics as a whole and the fact it's going to last years means that many low cost manufacturers are going to close up shop because they won't be profitable.
- kasabali 8mo agoI'm pretty sure there were more DRAM manufacturers back then, and spinning up a new fab probably didn't require as much know-how, capital or even time.