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I hope China floods the market with cheap RAM and absolutely destroys these scumbag memory companies.
Like they did with EVs in the US?
Republicans would probably make sure that can't happen.
And you end up with the US getting hosed while the rest of us swim in cheap EVs.
The US would be the only country to suffer in this scenario. The rest of the world would be just fine with using cheaper memory while we shoot ourselves in the foot to spite them.
I'm sure they'll try to ban Chinese memory for "national security reasons" but the differences here are that memory is much easier to smuggle in, and even if not, them flooding other markets would free up more supply of other manufacturers enough that we should see major price drops anyway. They recently tried banning imports of foreign-made routers and that didn't seem to actually work out.
I can't wait to buy hollow lead cubes for recreational purposes. No, they don't open, why do you ask?
They already preemptively had CXMT on the trade blacklist lol. Only got removed because of the intense shortage.
don’t worry I can import an euro car bloated with chinese rams everywhere. a win-win
It will take maybe two to three years before China could do that. The cheap Chinese RAM manufacturers are only starting their production.
That's true, but after that point the capacity is there and it will be harder to constrain supply in this way after that. After China establishes a major memory player, I assume they wouldn't want to fall behind after that point either.
If they have the capacity to do that they would have already been doing it. Chip production is extremely expensive which is why there's only a few companies doing it.
Fingers crossed for the next 5 years.