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The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 4 points 18 hours ago

Prices don't generally recover; any reason for a price rise is a reason to make it the new norm.

Used to be, competition would spring up and keep them in check, but now that the entire market is 6 companies in a trench coat, any new competitor would just be acquired or forced out of business with legal demands or supplier tampering.