Comment by cosmic_cheese
3 hours ago
1. The AI bubble is an insane distortion and the gravy train isn’t going to last forever. Betting the farm on everlasting datacenter demand is myopic.
2. In a healthy, competitive market there would be smaller manufacturers that’d be happy to take up the big guys’ discarded business.
1. But it might last for at least few more years, see Nvidia 1 trillion backlog.
2. Semiconductor manufacturing is the most complex industrial process in the world. You need billions of capex and decades of experience. Even existing semi players like intel cannot switch production to memory.
China CXMT is gaing traction in DDR market. New fabs from all players wil come online in the next two years.
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Not sure I understand this statement. Apple is affected by DRAM price fixing the same as any other PC manufacturer.
Ahh you are right, not sure where I got that from…
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