▲ 193 ▼ 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) submitted 10 months ago by schizoidman@lemmy.zip to c/technology@lemmy.world 25 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 8 points 10 months ago (2 children) When demand is higher than supply, that's a shortage permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 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? permalink fedilink source parent [–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 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! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 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? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 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! permalink fedilink source parent