Comment by SirFatty
5 days ago
"memory manufacturers have been operating on the margins of profitability for quite a while now."
The manufacturers are scumbags is more likely answer.
5 days ago
"memory manufacturers have been operating on the margins of profitability for quite a while now."
The manufacturers are scumbags is more likely answer.
I don't disagree per-se, but this is the sort of thing which happens when only a few businesses exist in a commodity market with high entry costs. IOW, it's not great, but it is predictable. See: Oil.
Looking forward to the "Organization of Processor-Etching Corporations".
It's usually not only illegal, but also a crime.
Anyway, that's the kind of market that governments always need to act upon and either supply directly or regulate intensively.
It's not just predictable, it's illegal. Of course, if you have an executive that actually cares about enforcing the law.
There is a zero lower bound on the interest rate. Excess capital means negative returns on capital. The money system can't express the state of the real world so either companies close down until the yield is positive, or the companies pass on the artificial minimum price onto the consumer. In both cases, the real world is forced to match the state of the money system.
Being shocked that companies try their best to deal with the bad cards they have been dealt with should be expected. The money system simply cannot express the concept of surplus capital or abundance. Positive interest means capital is scarce, so capital must be made scarce even if there is abundance.
Before you come up with the argument that the interest rate is supposed to reflect a market property and therefore does not force itself upon the market, remember that I said that there is an artificial restriction in the money system that prevents the state of the real market to be expressed. The non-profit economy has never had a chance to exist, because our tools are too crude.
The non-profit economy includes resilient production with slight/minor overproduction.
Think about how stupid the idea of a guaranteed 0% yield bond is (aka cash). The government obligates itself to accept an infinite amount of debt if the real return on capital would ever fall negative. No wonder it has an incentive to inflate the value of the bond away.
I wonder how long it will take for China to flood the market with state-of-the-art modules. It's a pretty decent opportunity for them. They probably can hasten the build of new fabs more than many other nations.
But my guess is that this shortage is short-lived (mostly because of the threat above). There's no OPEC for tech.
They just debuted in house DDR5 2 days ago: https://wccftech.com/cxmt-debuts-domestically-produced-ddr5-...
You mean “capitalists”.
Maximizing profit is the only sane way to play a rigged game