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FriedButter said:
Lol. RAM is going to cost about as much as a mid to high tier GPU soon isn’t it. I suppose an SSD Storage could slowly ramp up to the price of a low tier GPU. SK Hynix sold out their 2026 backlog to AI data centers, Micron is ditching the market, leaving only Samsung for the consumer market outside the Chinese market. Anyone buying an PC or Console might want to consider getting one early. I don’t think anyone can expect prices to become “reasonable” again for the next few years at the minimum.
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So you are saying the Americans will be begging for an "overcapacity" in memory from China sooner than we think. The irony.
 
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FriedButter said:
Lol. RAM is going to cost about as much as a mid to high tier GPU soon isn’t it. I suppose an SSD Storage could slowly ramp up to the price of a low tier GPU. SK Hynix sold out their 2026 backlog to AI data centers, Micron is ditching the market, leaving only Samsung for the consumer market outside the Chinese market. Anyone buying an PC or Console might want to consider getting one early. I don’t think anyone can expect prices to become “reasonable” again for the next few years at the minimum.
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Chinese RAM will occupy the global consumer market. A few years after that, Chinese GPUs will too.
 
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RAM is so expensive, Samsung won’t even sell it to Samsung​

The price of eggs has nothing on the price of computer memory right now. Thanks to a supply crunch from the “AI” bubble, RAM chips are the new gold, with prices on consumer PC memory kits ballooning out of control. In an object lesson in the ridiculousness of an economic bubble, Samsung won’t even sell its memory to… Samsung.

Here’s the situation. Samsung makes everything from refrigerators to supermassive oil tankers. Getting all that stuff made requires an organization that’s literally dozens of affiliated companies and subsidiaries, which don’t necessarily work as closely or harmoniously as you might assume. For this story, we’re talking about Samsung Electronics, which makes Galaxy phones, tablets, laptops, watches, etc., and Samsung Semiconductor Global, which manufactures memory and other chips and supplies the global market. That global market includes both Samsung subsidiaries and their competitors—laptops from Samsung, Dell, and Lenovo sitting on a Best Buy store shelf might all have Samsung-manufactured memory sitting in their RAM slots.

Samsung subsidiaries are, naturally, going to look to Samsung Semiconductor first when they need parts. Such was reportedly the case for Samsung Electronics, in search of memory supplies for its newest smartphones as the company ramps up production for 2026 flagship designs. But with so much RAM hardware going into new “AI” data centers—and those companies willing to pay top dollar for their hardware—memory manufacturers like Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron are prioritizing data center suppliers to maximize profits.

The end result, according to a report from SE Daily spotted by SamMobile, is that Samsung Semiconductor rejected the original order for smartphone DRAM chips from Samsung Electronics’ Mobile Experience division. The smartphone manufacturing arm of the company had hoped to nail down pricing and supply for another year. But reports say that due to “chipflation,” the phone-making division must renegotiate quarterly, with a long-term supply deal rejected by its corporate sibling. A short-term deal, with higher prices, was reportedly hammered out.

Assuming that this information is accurate—and to be clear, we can’t independently confirm it—consumers will see prices rise for Samsung phones and other mobile hardware. But that’s hardly a surprise. Finished electronics probably won’t see the same meteoric rise in prices as consumer-grade RAM modules, but this rising tide is flooding all the boats. Raspberry Pi, which strives to keep its mod-friendly electronics as cheap as possible, has recently had to bring prices up and called out memory costs as the culprit. Lenovo, the world’s largest PC manufacturer, is stockpiling memory supplies as a bulwark against the market.

But if you’re hoping to see prices lower in 2026, don’t hold your breath. According to a forecast from memory supplier TeamGroup, component prices have tripled recently, causing finished modules to jump in prices as quickly as 100 percent in a month. Absent some kind of disastrous market collapse, prices are expected to continue rising into next year, and supply could remain constrained well into 2027 or later.
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Samsung Semiconductor reportedly refused a RAM order for new Galaxy phones from Samsung Electronics.
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burritocannon said:
your friends and family are not chinese. your cultural sensibilities are not chinese. you have no real prospects of success if you were suddenly transplanted to china.
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I don't think this is has anything to do with having the tact to know right from wrong. Lots of overseas born Chinese of course won't have Chinese sensibilities since their education and the environment they were brought up in is Western. And even for those with solid language skills, not being immersed in China save for vacation means they probably don't know it well enough to do things like say, ace a panel style Chinese job interview.

And even for those who are so good they can, they'll likely lack the familiarity with Chinese culture and etiquette necessary to navigate Chinese office politics and rise to a senior position in a Chinese company that'll allow for them and their family to live close to the city center, rather than commuting 90 minutes one way from an outer suburb. That's a reality many face, but the choice to stand up for your principles, recognize who the enemy is, and make the right decisions is still theirs regardless.
 
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Xiongmao said:
Anybody with more economic knowledge please correct my thinking here. That bubble chart shows government debt levels, but what about government assets on the other side of the ledger? China's 130% debt must be seen in the light that that the Chinese state owns all of the 10 million sqkm land, about 50% of the enterprise value of Chinese industry, foreign reserves and all the hidden reserves that it has control over. Do the other governents in that chart have comparable assets? What would the net assets bubble chart look like?
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You are right and it tells a lot how the Western mainstream commentary misses this. A lot of the Chinese govt spending was used for asset generation. This is similar to those HSR copes. Now, at least they have HSR. What was the alternative to HSR for the fast transport of billions of humans each year? Buying gajillion Boeings and Airbusses?
 
AssassinsMace

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This reminds me of something those Hong Kong activists claimed which was that all these Hong Kong activists were being rounded up and then secretly executed by the mainland. Well if that's true, then give up their names. There would be a record of them being around and therefore can be declared to the least missing? The Hong Kong that they were fighting to save would've kept records of that sort wouldn't they? They couldn't lie and use real people because eventually those people would be located. If they were dead why not give up their names and use them as martyrs? That's why they didn't give up names because then their story would be seen eventually as a lie and discredit them. And what's worse for their lie? No one died on their side by the hands of the people they saw as the bad guys.

Why did the US military kill the wounded on that boat? After all the bull about who gave the orders, it was simply because if there were survivors, then it could be confirmed if they were actually drug dealers which makes it an international human rights violating level crime if not especially by a country that claims to value human rights and democratic principles for all. The level of seriousness of how much it's a crime skyrockets if everyone finds out that the ten people who you don't need so you can traffic and smuggle more money making drugs on a boat just happened to not do anything that's a crime slams the entire West's reputation to the world in the face. Them being dead now means they're just fish food. No chance of finding the truth. Right now everyone even the critics are concentrating on assuming they were criminals so the only thing wrong was you're not suppose to kill people who aren't a threat and those include the wounded even if they were enemy combatants. What are the chances? One of the survivors could've had a drug criminal record or was related to someone that was but they couldn't take that chance especially if the US military was firing missiles and killing anyone just to serve a geopolitical narrative.
 
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Western game journalists being racist white neckbeards doesn't surprise me.
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1993217117773258888

Meanwhile. Ubisoft:
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1995099818608181407
 
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AssassinsMace said:

This reminds me of something those Hong Kong activists claimed which was that all these Hong Kong activists were being rounded up and then secretly executed by the mainland. Well if that's true, then give up their names. There would be a record of them being around and therefore can be declared to the least missing? The Hong Kong that they were fighting to save would've kept records of that sort wouldn't they? They couldn't lie and use real people because eventually those people would be located. If they were dead why not give up their names and use them as martyrs? That's why they didn't give up names because then their story would be seen eventually as a lie and discredit them. And what's worse for their lie? No one died on their side by the hands of the people they saw as the bad guys.

Why did the US military kill the wounded on that boat? After all the bull about who gave the orders, it was simply because if there were survivors, then it could be confirmed if they were actually drug dealers which makes it an international human rights violating level crime if not especially by a country that claims to value human rights and democratic principles for all. The level of seriousness of how much it's a crime skyrockets if everyone finds out that the ten people who you don't need so you can traffic and smuggle more money making drugs on a boat just happened to not do anything that's a crime slams the entire West's reputation to the world in the face. Them being dead now means they're just fish food. No chance of finding the truth. Right now everyone even the critics are concentrating on assuming they were criminals so the only thing wrong was you're not suppose to kill people who aren't a threat and those include the wounded even if they were enemy combatants. What are the chances? One of the survivors could've had a drug criminal record or was related to someone that was but they couldn't take that chance especially if the US military was firing missiles and killing anyone just to serve a geopolitical narrative.
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Them killing countless innocent people is not new.
 
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