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submitted 10 months ago by to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world
 
Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
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[–] 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I just don't understand how selling everything they produce increases costs. Are they just charging more for more profits, or is the increased prices funding increased production?

The vast difference in economics between retail and manufacturing don't make sense to me.

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago

    A bigger share of the current factory output is being routed to the tech companies rather than the consumer component shops meaning there's less to go around. Since there's less to go around, consumer-facing stores are forced to bid higher to be able to maintain their stock which is then passed on to us plebs

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    At that scale it's kind of like an auction for the capacity to produce the chips (and it's the DRAM chips, not the finished modules in this case).

    So for a DIMM retailer to get enough chips to make a product they need to out bid Nvidia :-(

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago

    My micro economics would tell me it's that the demand curve is shifting upwards, while the supply curve is at best the same, of not going lower (currently), so the intersecting price where they meet goes up. While it may be artificial, more demand on the same supply increases prices typically. Depending on the elasticity of the demand for the product (toys VS household electricity costs for example), the market will bare the increases if it deems it essential.

    But those were lessons from 15 years ago, this brave new world of open corruption and greed have probably up ended some of those concepts. The circular fake economy of a half a dozen tech companies can probably only sustain itself for so long, I guess we'll see how it all pans out

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