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People 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 seco
by datakan 1mo ago
People 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 1mo 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 1mo agoIntel entered the memory space because they partnered with Micron. They left the memory space when Micron pulled out of the partnership.
- chris_money202 1mo agoIntel started making DRAM in 1970, Micron was founded in 1978.
- varispeed 1mo 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 1mo agoNah, DRAM is easy and very regular, it's a transistor and capacitor plus a massive decoder/encoder for addressing. The hard part is that it's a crushingly low margin business and without the added AI demand there were constant boom and bust cycles wiping out the manufacturers.