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sanitation lemmy.today sanitation@lemmy.today
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kibblebits quokk.au kibblebits@quokk.au
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No one ever puts ram manufacturers in the hot seat.

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mushroommunk lemmy.today mushroommunk@lemmy.today
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No one ever puts ram manufacturers in the hot seat.

Or any of the like three companies who bought all the supply.

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gedfromgont piefed.ca gedfromgont@piefed.ca
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Or any of the like three companies who bought all the supply.

"Bought", I mean the money never existed or did it?

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Dpek lemmy.zip Dpek@lemmy.zip
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No one ever puts ram manufacturers in the hot seat.

Oh they were in the hot seat plenty

Thats why there are only 3 major manufacturers

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mushroommunk lemmy.today mushroommunk@lemmy.today
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"Bought", I mean the money never existed or did it?

I'm pretty sure the money is real. Nvidia has like 10.6 billion dollars in cash on hand in the bank (down quite a bit because they've been giving it out like candy). Apple and Oracle have similarly insane numbers. All these big companies have been hoarding assets for years. The AI companies have been using the very real cash from those hoarding companies in exchange for a share of themself. That's where it's made up.

The air quotes around "bought" is valid more because they haven't actually bought anything, they've promised to buy future manufacturing time.

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titanicx lemmy.zip titanicx@lemmy.zip
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No one ever puts ram manufacturers in the hot seat.

I'm pretty sure everyone is putting RAM manufacturers in the hot seat. But unfortunately there are the ones that set the prices and everyone else that purchases from them either directly or purchases items that have RAM in them which is you know everything electronic like that really doesn't have much of a choice.

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