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Why they don't research how to make their own RAM and they have to buy it from the common market? They should GTFO with this crap. Create barriers to computin
by varispeed 2mo ago
Why they don't research how to make their own RAM and they have to buy it from the common market?
They should GTFO with this crap.
Create barriers to computing for ordinary people while milking businesses for tokens.
- petcat 2mo agoBuilding a custom-designed ASIC is much easier than producing state of the art memory chips. There's a reason why Micron and Nvidia are the crown jewels of American technology right now and for the foreseeable future.
- brcmthrowaway 2mo agoNVIDIA produces memory?
- fc417fc802 2mo agoFabless AFAIK. And that's the actual problem - drawing up CAD diagrams doesn't help if the factories are fully booked out.
- Cyph0n 2mo agoA state of the art GPU is much harder to design & produce at scale and than an internal ASIC.
- JV00 2mo agoNvidia does not make RAM
- varispeed 2mo agoThat doesn't excuse them from wrecking the market for ordinary person.
- chris_money202 2mo agoNvidia buys the memory it uses on its GPUs, same as all other ASICs. To give some context, Intel started making DRAM, I think they were actually the company that came up with modern memory techniques. They exited the market and pursued a more lucrative moat with CPUs.
- datakan 2mo agoPeople keep saying stuff like this without understanding what it takes to make RAM. It's one of, if not the most, heavily patented things in the world. The second you dip your toes into those waters the lawsuits begin. If somehow you get around the patent issues, you're now faced with huge research and development costs, fabs to build, processes to sort out and all of that has very high failure rates. Last time I checked Micron was the largest patent holder in the world and even for them this is a hard area where they are number 3 in the market.
- chris_money202 2mo agoRAM chips are not hard to produce compared to many other types of semiconductors; Intel started in the memory game and left because the margins weren't great and they were going to fold. The failure rates on these chips are actually very tolerable; you can have a very bad yield and still have a viable chip due to things like ECC.
- datakan 2mo agoIntel entered the memory space because they partnered with Micron. They left the memory space when Micron pulled out of the partnership.
- chris_money202 2mo agoIntel started making DRAM in 1970, Micron was founded in 1978.
- varispeed 2mo agoYes, it is difficult, but shafting working class is easy, therefor it is okay. If the rich decided to buy all drinking water, you would probably be saying that's okay, making water is difficult, shortly before dying.
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- imtringued 2mo ago