but do you have an X link

only first hand sources from elon count

Dude, I appreciate the ever-loving f*** out of you actually taking the time to compile this, and a site sources. This is genuinely what I was hoping to get out of the thread ( all of the haterade was just... An unhealthy bonus, I guess?) And I'll be diving into those links.

I sometimes feel torn about these kinds of market consolidation issues, because it's certainly not Samsung or skhynix's fault there are no at-scale fabs from first party American brands, and that both until and AMD did everything in their power to reduce domestic production and spin off their own Fab facilities for literally anyone else to manage wherever possible.

It's Red Lobster and every other Private Equity managed restaurant chain becoming a real estate holding company, just with a lot more electrons.

But it's not like TSMC or SK Hynix did this to us, and it's on all of the consumers to keep the board partners and oackagers honest.

Thst said, I tend to think consolidation is universally bad, absent any nationalization of infrastructure, and my country has this same nightmare playing out with its housing as Blackrock and other equity groups have make a clear effort to force all of us to be perpetual renters.

We in this thread are likely universally in agreement about the problems at hand. I respect that you cut across my bullshit and everyone else's to actually bring citations and thoughts. Cheers.

Lol. Which Corp am I simping for, when I don't want to give the youTube neckbeard-in-chief viewership?

What does it mean if I get a bunch of down votes for asking for literally any corroborating or alternative sources?

That's right, anyone with a perspective different than yours is clearly broken and incapable of rehabilitation!

edit: it dawns on me that if I only answer with snark I'm not doing any better than the people that are just attacking me. Perhaps it's worth defining terms so that we can argue more clearly about the subject. I apologize if you already know all of this and I'm just trying to get on the same page, here.

For most products that you and I want to run in our tech stacks, we are relying on packagers, whether that's software or hardware i rely on someone to make my shit accessible and useful to me. Skhynix or TSMC has some teeny tiny silicone stack roll off the line, I can't just cram that into my tower or phone. I need a company like PNY or EVGA (rrrriiiiippp) to actually wrap those up with cooling components and distribution lanes, and interfaces, which allowed them to run with all of our cool devices based on industry standards.

The thesis for a lot of our community these days, and for sensationalist ambulance chasing video publishers, seems to be that every board partner has grown to be a Mustachio-twirling villain, as if ASrock or BeeTech just simply hate their user base.

From where I'm sitting, I can see material costs for these most basic components in our systems (the storage and memory) are likely going to double and triple the bill of materials going into my gear, as the Barabones version is my yesteryear PC has gone down in price, but buying my variant has increased by at least 30%.

I would entertain a conversation of grand conspiracy and villainous collusion, but not if I have to sit through three and a half hours of everyone's favorite neckbeard droning on in front of his camera while I desperately wish that I could My Little Pony the shit out of his straggly mane of hair, brushing him out for hours.

I walked away from giving Mr Nexus any viewership whey he started going after the jugular on adjacent tech channels, often the ones who actuary explained the mechanics of board partners to me first when I was younger.

I have always focused on, and advocated for, low-watt competing and with an emphasis on gaming. I cared more abut Atoms than Threadrippers, and have not bothered with purists that works trek new that everyone needs the best of the best.

My interest is more in accessibility than anything else, which is why I'm absolutely f****** thrilled and delighted that we now have Chinese silicon vendors looking to flood the zone with cheap DDR4 and slower DDR5.

But through it all, if we find out that, as a wild counterexample, " making the next iPhone in the domestic us would make each unit cost $30,000usd" for instance, that means that our smart devices never actually only cost $1,000. It means that we have all been comfortable with subsidized devices and sponsored exploitation under the surface."

If the labor the crafts are things, from fabrication, to packaging, to distribution, cannot operate with the cost of labor, services, and materials, then we should absolutely expect prices to spike horrendously.

But for most folks supply chain woes aren't about human rights abuses (unless they happen to hate a specific brand, the way that Foxconn critics would lambast apple but not sony or microsoft, and the same one facility complex in Shenzhen might be manufacturing iPhones, PlayStations and Xboxes all at the same time).

To bring together my big, haphazard, stupid point: Conspiracies can exist, and I would be interested to hear analysis around Market collusion from literally any other source on the planet, I don't believe Everyone's Favorite Burke would be the only voice to promote this issue and I don't trust his track record of cherry picking and sensationalism to actually arrive at a serious conversation about equitable distribution of our technologies and equitable valuation of the labor that goes into it. Instead, I expect more selective outrage, and I expect people won't read past my criticisms if one man, but will continue to fail to bring anything worth reading and discussing to this forum. You know, the table where we read and write and discuss.

Thst, or I'm just a "broken human" -- and what does that say about you, if I'm what you see in your own team, here? These communities are what we make of them.