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VladStanimiryesterday at 2:22 PM2 repliesview on HN

I don't think its from the ML collapse FUD, its most likely from the multiple time's in the past when they overbuilt and it resulted in a memory oversupply and price collapses. The 1985–1988, 1993–1994, 1998–2002 and the post pandemic oversupply. These were all cases where shortages followed by over corrections caused oversupply, financial losses due to low prices and fewer surviving companies. I think they're taking their time and are cautiously adding more capacity in such a way that prices won't end up collapsing again. Regardless, the result is still that we the consumers have to pay more.


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bee_rideryesterday at 8:37 PM

At this point the remaining memory companies are… the ones that didn’t die during an over-supply collapse, right? I guess there’s been a strong evolutionary pressure against giving consumers what we want, haha.

DoctorOetkeryesterday at 5:29 PM

its not like all the RAM is passing the same machine, they can gradually increase machines and observe the change in demand, and smoothly match it.

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