▲ 618 ▼ Chinese memory can now match the speed and latency configs of the RAM in our gaming PCs (www.pcgamer.com) submitted 2 months ago by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world 144 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago (2 children) Canadian here ...what's a tariff? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 child) Canada–China trade war Might be worth doing a little research. Canada's never been shy about using them. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] turmacar@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* RAM has not come from China, and China isn't exporting much of it yet. Unless Canada and the EU and Japan and everyone else is also handing out tariffs on Taiwan, Korea, etc like the US is, their point was the price of RAM doesn't have anything to do with tariffs. The price of RAM is high globally because the AI companies have bought future-RAM with money the RAM producing companies gave them to build data centers that don't exist yet. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 child) Canada–China trade war Might be worth doing a little research. Canada's never been shy about using them. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] turmacar@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* RAM has not come from China, and China isn't exporting much of it yet. Unless Canada and the EU and Japan and everyone else is also handing out tariffs on Taiwan, Korea, etc like the US is, their point was the price of RAM doesn't have anything to do with tariffs. The price of RAM is high globally because the AI companies have bought future-RAM with money the RAM producing companies gave them to build data centers that don't exist yet. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* RAM has not come from China, and China isn't exporting much of it yet. Unless Canada and the EU and Japan and everyone else is also handing out tariffs on Taiwan, Korea, etc like the US is, their point was the price of RAM doesn't have anything to do with tariffs. The price of RAM is high globally because the AI companies have bought future-RAM with money the RAM producing companies gave them to build data centers that don't exist yet. permalink fedilink source parent