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apiyesterday at 3:09 PM4 repliesview on HN

I’ve been in tech for a long time and have seen RAM shortages and price spikes before. This one’s fairly bad but they resolve in 1-3 years.


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reenorapyesterday at 4:23 PM

I've been in tech for ~40 years now and I've never seen anything like this. The downstream repercussions on consumer products that have no access to cheap memory is devastating and is an extinction level event for most low-cost providers of cell phones, tvs, etc.

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pixl97yesterday at 3:17 PM

Ya, how's that working out for GPU's?

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layer8yesterday at 4:22 PM

Two years remaining at least this time, according to current fab planning.

groundzeros2015yesterday at 3:18 PM

The cure for high prices is high prices.