RAM Prices Soar Due to AI Boom, Samsung Refuses Internal Memory Orders
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Summary
The article discusses the dramatic price increases in computer memory (RAM) due to supply constraints from the AI boom, creating an economic bubble where memory chips have become extremely valuable. In a striking example of this market distortion, Samsung Semiconductor reportedly refused to sell RAM chips to its own sister company, Samsung Electronics, for new Galaxy phones because the external market prices were so much higher. The piece explains how this situation illustrates the absurdity of economic bubbles and the complex internal dynamics within large conglomerates like Samsung.
Key quotes
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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.
Samsung makes everything from refrigerators to supermassive oil tankers.
Getting all that stuff made requires an organization that's literally do
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