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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)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 356 points 10 months ago (17 children)

what if we cannibalize our long-term viability for a short-term gain says every dipshit in charge of tech hardware manufacturing.

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  • [–] 188 points 10 months ago (9 children)

    you know when the bubble pops and they no longer have AI companies buying RAM they will switch back to consumers and keep the high prices.

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  • [–] 135 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    if they're still around when the financial shell game they're playing finally comes to a stop. who am i kidding the government will bail them out.

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  • [–] 95 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Using your money.

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  • [–] 23 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    if the US government were actually funded by taxes, then everything the government does would be with "my money"

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Even if the government is funded by money printed by the central bank, it would still be funded with "your money". Every dollar printed dilutes your money by that same amount, ie it's like a much more subtle tax that doesn't follow any of the principles of proportionality, everyone pays the same (except those with little to no liquidity and everything invested, so it's really a tax on the poor through inflation)

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago

    That only works if we (the collective we) have more money. If a rich person has more $$ than a small country that means the effect we have is equivalent.

    That's why micron is doing what its doing. We are no longer the customer. They voted for us.

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  • [–] 45 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Every business is doing this for everything. To different degrees but they are all chasing their “get our fortune now and get the fuck out because the sky is falling” mentality. Have been since Trump 1.0 and now it’s accelerating rapidly.

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  • [–] 19 points 10 months ago

    You have to remember that "get that bag" is practically inherit to business. We spend a lot of time and effort making it illegal to fuck people over and do bad business stuff, but kinda-sorta since Regan the businesses have slowly been winning that battle.

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  • [–] 27 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    That's every company, most upper management don't stay in one position for more than 2 years. So the system is setup for short term gains because investors aren't interested in long term investments and the blowback is the next guys problem. Who then is looking for the next big win to cover up the last guy issues without fixing anything. Then they bring in someone to clean up the mess and the cycle starts again.

    Plus most consumers have short memories or don't have an alternative so their stuck. There are small groups holding on but for 75% of the world's population right now it's Android or iOS, AMD or Intel, AMD or NVIDIA, Samsung or WD or Seagate or SanDisk, Att or Verizon, Apple or Microsoft, and so on.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    That's every company

    Not every company, just most. Privately owned corporations aren't legally obligated to kill long-term viability for short-term gaing like publicly traded companies are.

    Many owners of privately owned corps are that dumb, but not all of them

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  • [–] 16 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Also your reputation. I had a Crucial SSD and was days from getting an identical one as a backup but then they said they were stopping consumer RAM sales so they're now on my blacklist.

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    Question is, though, who now isn't on your blacklist?

    Samsung and SK Hynix never sold to consumers directly, yet seem to be avoiding flak. Micron is now joining them in that.

    Who do you get that isn't that three? Almost all RAM on the market is Samsung, SK Hynix, or Micron.

    On top of that, Samsung and SK Hynix were the ones that signed the OpenAI deal (OpenAI bought 40% of the world's DRAM supply and kicked off panic buying), so tbh Micron is the least responsible for the current DRAM market issues.

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