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HP reportedly eyes Chinese suppliers for DRAM as global shortage sparks shake-up — analyst says memory chips are commodities that can easily be replaced (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 44 points 10 months ago (7 children)

There is no chip shortage. There are plenty of chips they're just not being sold to consumers.

This is an important distinction.

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  • [–] 25 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Shortage means supply doesnt meet demands, which is true. AI giants are gobbling up the available supply leaving us lower paying customers without any

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

    Once again there is no shortage. My local microcenter center has hundreds of bundles in stock. They're just super expensive because posts like this keep saying there's a shortage.

    There is no ram shortage. There was never a ram shortage.

    One company decided to not sell consumer ram anymore and the collective world lost their minds.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago

    That's a very narrow slice of a supply chain to be using it as a basis for conclusions like that.

    I don't disagree that the "shortage" is artificial, i'm just saying that your local store having stock and raising prices isn't a good basis for determining overall supply chain health.

    Like looking out your window and seeing rain, so obviously it must be raining everywhere.

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

    When demand is higher than supply, that's a shortage

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Is demand actually higher than supply? This is all from future orders to be plugged into data centers that don't exist, that needs power that doesn't exist to earn a profit from a product that doesn't have profits that exist.

    If I take out a 20B loan to buy all Pokemon cards on the market with an agreement to buy 95% of all future cards made for the next few years and use the Pokémon cards as an asset to secure the loan did I single handedly drive up demand for the foreseeable future even if there is no proof I will make good on the deal?

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Yes. But the supply exists. I'm telling you, you can get ram readily. No one is sold out of it.

    eBay is bursting with ram. Microcenter is fully stocked. Computers are selling steady.

    There is no ram shortage! Its just expensive because people are saying there's a shortage!

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