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Cheap Chinese chips could offer way out of RAM price crisis, Apple suggests
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this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2026
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Except you don't start a dram company overnight...
Well yeah, but the price is so high because the big 3 refuse to meet the demand so CXMT selling ram is also going to force the hand of the big 3 unless they're okay with CXMT just gobbling up the market. It won't happen overnight but if the AI deals are to be believed CXMT has years to scale up production because the big 3 will have their docks stuck in the AI pot.
You can't just scale up production on a whim, where do you get the litography machines from? ASML...
China makes their own I believe.
Well not they dont (or its like ddr1)
lmao, they do, its not as advanced as asml but they got good enough lithography machines to make gpus. they have ram covered.
That's the thing, the companies already exist, there are just import restrictions on them because China
I didn't say it'd be overnight.
But you could use it for slower access solid state, and then set that up as virtual memory.
Youd be swapping like crazy but itd be so cheap compared to the same amount of real ram.
I think this might work for many people just browsing the web. Maybe even games
You could also just download more RAM