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Several of these companies almost went under before the AI boom. There isn’t a cartel.
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Is there any allegations of price fixing in this case? The demand just skyrocketed. Other than legislation like the defense act in the US I don’t know of any governments that have jurisdiction over these ram makers that mandate companies produce more of a product.

Especially not for consumer goods.

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If they're charging one customer $X and another customer $5X for the same chips... there's got to be some law about this.
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I missed that this is happening, is it really? I thought it's 5X for everyone
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Supposedly OpenAI is paying 2025 prices.
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