It’s not merely a “gaming vs data center“. There’s so many other places DRAM and NVM are needed - mobile, automotive, other consumer electronics,… the current situation is that _all_ of that is deprived of the memory that it needs. And much of this is critical to the real economy.
replyi could have used lemons and lemonade stands to explain supply and demand, the lesson is still the same.
replyletting the market set prices ensures that the chips go to the critical markets and uses. less critical uses will not allocate funds for purchases.
Why are you only talking about gamers? Apple, the most cautious planners in the whole industry have straight up cancelled their 512gb RAM Mac Studio. Don’t ask; they won’t sell you one.
replyEverybody’s getting pinched, not just the gamers.
The issue is supply is inelastic so even as prices soar they can only make more so fast and that won’t get fixed until 2028.
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