The comments in here are starting to look like Reddit with the conspiracy nonsense.
Memory isn’t expensive because Samsung is greedy or because they’re secretly stockpiling product. It’s because AI uses a lot of memory and so people are buying a lot of memory and it takes time for the manufacturers to increase supply to meet demand. This is 100s level economics
From: https://courses.byui.edu/econ_150/econ_150_old_site/lesson_03.htm
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That is true, but also not what is happening.
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Who is they? Where did capitalism make this announcement? Who was the representative of Capitalism that said that it is okay to crash the world economy?
This sounds like conspiracy nonsense.
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Memory is high because there is nothing preventing them from charging anything they want above and beyond the cost of manufacture.
Yes, that would be true if they had a true monopoly.
However, in an open market when a producer offers their goods for higher than the market rate, another producer can steal their business by simply offering the products at market rate. If Samsung decides to try to price gouge then customers can buy RAM from Micron, the only time that this isn’t possible is if there is more demand than their is supply (i.e. Micron has no stock) in which case, microeconomics tells us that the market price will increase.
How naive to think they all wont do the same thing when their only goal is profit.
Now you’re suggesting a price fixing conspiracy among the two largest RAM producers, that’s quite a big claim so you surely have pretty solid evidence to support that position.
Being cynical isn’t evidence and calling people names isn’t evidence.
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