Micron exited the consumer DRAM market in December 2025, leaving Samsung and SK Hynix as the only two major suppliers. It is now rumored that SK Hynix may follow Micron's lead, stopping the production of consumer DRAM and NAND chips.
Freedom in the future will require us to have the capacity to monitor our devices and set meaningful policy on them, to examine and terminate the processes that run on them, to maintain them as honest servants to our will, and not as traitors and spies working for criminals, thugs, and control freaks. And we haven’t lost yet, but we have to win the copyright wars to keep the Internet and the PC free and open. Because these are the materiel in the wars that are to come, we won’t be able to fight on without them. And I know this sounds like a counsel of despair, but as I said, these are early days. We have been fighting the mini-boss, and that means that great challenges are yet to come.
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I think Cory was pretty clear that it wasn’t just about copyright and DRM, and the enemy will come up with new ways to achieve its goals. That article was about the first battles in the war, we’re now entering the midgame.
(emphasis mine)
I think Cory was pretty clear that it wasn’t just about copyright and DRM, and the enemy will come up with new ways to achieve its goals. That article was about the first battles in the war, we’re now entering the midgame.