alt Hacker NewsI used to sell 64kbit (yes, bit) DRAM at $7 in 1982. 1 year later was <$0.50.
The memory business is a pure commodity and brutally cyclic. Big profit => build a fab => wait 2 years => oh shit, everyone else did it => dump units at below cost. Repeat.
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huseyinkeles • yesterday at 9:36 PM
A great example for the pork cycle.
dboreham • yesterday at 9:18 PM
Old enough here to remember Intel exiting the DRAM business.
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Then you have “acts of God” like that time when a flood or fire or something caused the only factory in the world that produced some obscure part of memory chips to stop production and memory costs double almost overnight. I remember my 4 -> 32 MB back in the 90s cost a fortune because of this.