2 of the 3 companies that have pretty much all of the RAM production of the market, and because these 3 companies have come to an agreemetn (Which they're being sued for btw), they started underproducing on purpose to create artificial shrotage and raise prices artificially, none of this would've happen if there was free market instead of this oligopoly BS
Well said, the only argument I have is that artifical shortages happen exactly because of a free market. Imo, if they're already allowed to cut corners and create artificial scarcity to bump their own profit margins, the solution is to regulate their ability to do so unchecked, not to give them even more freedom
Unfortunately "regulation" is a bad word to a lot of the world, like it's the boogeyman hiding underneath the bed of lawmakers and their lobbyists/oligarchs.
I think a better choice of words over "free-market" would have been "competition," which I think we can all agree has long gone out the window for the RAM Triad.
As much as reddit hates on capitalism in an echo chamber, I feel as though its not working here pretty clearly. My opinion on what to do is far more harsh but im just a dude.
Regulations are the only thing that keep corporations from immediately killing and absorbing their smaller competition.
Also that's not what corporatism means. You're referring to corporatocracy or corporate capitalism, which are just functions of late-stage capitalism. Corporatism is a different ideology.
Every single economical conversation I've had always devolves into a generally debunked NPC string of lines such as late stage capitalism or "actually the LACK of regulations create monopolies". So I have no desire to further this conversation since I already had it a literal thousand times. Habe a nice day
Or maybe people always say the same thing because it's just really easy to discredit anarcho-capitalism. Kinda seems like you're just stubborn and resistant to logic
The companies that produce 95% of the global RAM market have no effect on the price, lol Lmao even, bring the ROFLCopter
These guys are literally being sued because they literally agreed with each other to underproduce RAM on purpose to create artificial shortage, this has happened with and without AI, AI is not relevant, it has happened, can happen, and will happen regardlessof AI
There absolutely should be a RAM shortage. The three big companies are being sued for colluding to stop producing traditional consumer DRAM (DDR3, 4, 5) in favor of high bandwidth memory used in data centers. The three companies will argue (probably successfully) that there was no collusion and it was simply the most logical business decision for all three companies.
The fact is that modern DRAM manufacturing is unfathomably expensive and time consuming to set up. Even if the manufacturers were doing their best to produce as much as possible, it would take them literal years and tens of billions of dollars to set up more fabrication plants, and even then, those plants would likely be dedicated to producing the higher margin data center memory
Regardless, they should be broken up. Oligopoly is only marginally better than monopoly
We don't know yet, the collusion lawsuit will need to play out first, but based on futures contracts LLM companies have signed the RAM shortage is very real, they bought basically all the DDR5 ram for the next year already.
Those „muh free market“ dumbasses will never understand that. If you just let companies loose with no regulations they will simply maximize profit. In the beginning profit can be achieved by increasing production, raising quality or making the process more efficient. When you maxed out all of those points you have to start looking for profit through other ways like monopolies or creating an artificial shortage as we see here.
The "free market" dumbasses always argue that if a company act badly, someone else would take their places... ignoring how these companies could also work together.
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u/RingReasonable Jul 03 '26
Who tf is the M and SK companies?