There is no chip shortage. There are plenty of chips they’re just not being sold to consumers.
This is an important distinction.
Shortage means supply doesnt meet demands, which is true. AI giants are gobbling up the available supply leaving us lower paying customers without any
Once again there is no shortage. My local microcenter center has hundreds of bundles in stock. They’re just super expensive because posts like this keep saying there’s a shortage.
There is no ram shortage. There was never a ram shortage.
One company decided to not sell consumer ram anymore and the collective world lost their minds.
That’s a very narrow slice of a supply chain to be using it as a basis for conclusions like that.
I don’t disagree that the “shortage” is artificial, i’m just saying that your local store having stock and raising prices isn’t a good basis for determining overall supply chain health.
Like looking out your window and seeing rain, so obviously it must be raining everywhere.
Although CXMT is accused of stealing technology from Samsung to build its first DDR5 chips, the limited global memory supply could lead desperate companies to overlook this and buy memory chips from the company.
Samsung, Apple, et al have stolen from each other at every turn from everyone and with no consequence. Who gaf that this Chinese company did it, too?
After all, most end users wouldn’t care where the memory chips in their laptops and pre-built PCs come from, as long as they perform well and are
competitivelyfairly pricedFixed it.
As long as we don’t get a ram version of the whole capacitor fiasco from the gen 1 xbox days
Fortunately bad quality DRAM can be found out much quicker than bad quality capacitors.
Lol that’s a fair point
If it does happen I hope consumers catch on fast. corpos can get fucked though
The paranoid in me wonders though… can DRAM be backdoored? I’d bet ‘yes’, and this would be a perfect opening to introduce a huge amount of compromised hardware to the world market…
I’m sure it can, like any component. But we’re all running computers full of chips from American companies, and the USA isn’t any more trustworthy. It’s not a huge change.
Not really. DRAM at its core is not even useful without a controller that actually provides managed access to it. Any backdoor would need to be either in the controller or a layer above for it to be functional. And controllers aren’t the issue, DRAM chips are.
China: I’m sorry but your sanctions don’t allow.
The way I see it, if you want to play video games you will have to be happy with cloud gaming slop or buy some obscure GPUs, SSDs and RAM from Chinese companies you have never heard of. The days of Nvidia and AMD for end consumer products are soon over. They don‘t care about us. I hate this development but it is what it is.
just play older games. they are usually better anyway
You’re not really thinking this through, are you? Your old hardware will deteriorate eventually. And believe me keeping an Oldtimer up running becomes increasingly expensive with fewer and fewer spare parts.
will last longer than that cloud shit
This is important for all of us. But, it will definitely boost Chinese chip manufacturing if prices are awesome even if they need to improve yields.
