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Comment by michelb | original | Court denies motion to dismiss DRAM price fixing case
[−]michelb · 2026-11-15 Sun 11:34 UTC · link
I would love to believe the price will be lower in two years, but I doubt it. Why would it be lower? There’s still a shortage and most of the stuff it goes into hasn’t even been built yet.
[−]Ygg2 · 2026-11-15 Sun 13:17 UTC · link
If the money music chair game stops they will scramble to get any money.

The glut of AI chips will lower prices meaning consumer GPUs start looking high margin. And if they pile into it again, prices will come down.

[−]post-it · 2026-11-15 Sun 15:41 UTC · link
Most of the stuff it goes into hasn’t even been built y̶e̶t̶.

Kevin O'Leary's 20 GW data centre is never getting built. Maybe he'll do a "phase 1" at a few hundred MW, but he's not going to build the largest power station in the world.