• damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Where’s free market capitalism when you need it? Why aren’t more companies jumping into the fray to cash in on this sudden boom?

    (I know. Chip making is not child’s play. This was rhetorical.)

    • tal@lemmy.today
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      4 days ago

      In fairness, it’d have theoretically been possible to predict the 2025 AI boom and start construction on new factories back in 2021, and prediction is one aspect of what an economy does.

      I mean, I didn’t see it, or I’d have bought memory maker stock and/or memory. :-)

      The memory makers got blindsided, as did most of the industry. I don’t think that a command economy would have done better, mind.

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      4 days ago

      I’d risk buying discount ram, back in the days when Frys was still around they had discount motherboards. $30-50 mobos sitting next to $200 mobos.

      Don’t see why no one’s trying it with RAM