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The risk is to the business not the consumers

• bigbadfeline 5mo ago
  There's no risk to businesses that are paying bonuses of $ 1 million, per worker, per year - like the RAM makes Samsung and SK Hynix. They are drowning in money but they don't invest in new production in order to maintain high prices. By doing so, they form a virtual trust with monopoly control over pricing. What you call "risk" for them is our best hope, China can't enter the market soon enough. Oops, the US government is blocking the Chinese chip industry in every way possible and thus becomes a factual member of the aforementioned anti-competitive and anti-consumer trust.
  • minraws 5mo ago
    Micron is a US company, and US did the same against Japan in the past
    • bigbadfeline 5mo ago
      > Micron is a US company Micron doesn't make RAM for the consumer market, they serve corporations only. That's been the case for about 1.5 years now. > and US did the same against Japan in the past And the USSR self-isolated from China like 20-30 years before they... disappeared.
      • minraws 5mo ago
        They closed Crucial in an announcement they until very recently still sold stuff to consumers and they have a business entity still to provide support and warranty in most countries. I got my RAM rma'ed 6 months ago, yes it was intense