alt Hacker Newsdont increase the price of the product?
the price didnt just go up for consumers, they themselves have deeply dipped into the opportunity to maximize profits.
its so hilariously outlandish that eg SK Hynix has to pay out >$450k to union employees (per employee - not in total!) because they have a contract that a percentage of profits get shared as a bonus across the company. this payout is usually not particularly high.
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The price is up because demand is way above supply (and will be for a long time because it takes years to expand supply to match the current level of demand).
If the manufacturers decided to keep the price constant that would NOT stop the price that most people pay from going up. It would just mean that the people who managed to buy from the manufacturer before the supply ran out would resell on the secondary market for a giant profit.
> dont increase the price of the product?
Literal empty shelves. And resellers on Ebay making bank.
Would you prefer the money goes to middlemen? When supply is constrained and the manufacturer doesn't price to match, all that happens is scalping. Even if the memory die manufacturers gave away their products for free it wouldn't budge consumer RAM prices in this market environment.