Might be surprising for USA’s self- centric nationalists, yet, unsurprising considering china has become the rising tech power since about 10 years now.
The US hasn’t been competitive in RAM (edit: manufacturing, though there is one plant in Virginia) in something like 40 years. The PRC is working on catching up to the RoK. I hope they manage to export good RAM soon, because the Korean companies are
allboth cutting back onproduction(edit: expansion) to increase prices.Also, the lone American company in the mix, which still manufactures most of its supply abroad, just killed off its consumer division entirely to focus on selling RAM to datacenters.
Micron is American and is competitive, especially in some verticals.
Huh?
Micron is one of the big three DRAM producers.
And the South Koreans aren’t lowering production, unless you mean DRAM specifically in favour of HBM for the datacentre/AI market (which is what they are doing), that would be crazy given the level of demand, it’d just let competitors take the market. Samsung and SK Hynix are expanding fabs, but they’re not expected to be operational until 2027.
Blatant misinformation being upvoted lol
Edited to fix some mistakes, thanks for the corrections.
unless you mean DRAM specifically in favour of HBM for the datacentre/AI market (which is what they are doing)
Looks like it’s the opposite:
Awesome. As an American consumer, China is doing far more for me than the corrupt USA.
Exploitative sweatshop labour pays dividends for us westerners, doesn’t it?
Better than a million feral humans sent back to live as animals in urban nature and corrupt wage slavery for pirate banker commodity housing, not to mention the Flock-You surveillance state that is stealing citizenship and democracy right now. When Citizen is functionally equivalent to Slave, China looks far better. “You will own nothing and be happy about it.” -because slaves that speak up find themselves dead. I’ll take a sweatshop over this corruption any day.
greetings from Kansas province
Yeah, okay, China.
How about produce the thing and don’t pull any marketing tricks, hm? We’ll find out one way or another whether these are the real deals.
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Depending on where you are in China, I agree. But the benefits are very unevenly distributed.
The future is bleak. China is not a nice place to live.
Big if true, but unlikely to be true.
On the one hand not fond of the CCP, and this is a step toward making Taiwan more “safely” invadeable.
On the other hand not fond of the United States throwing its weight around like it’s in charge of the world and not fond of monopolies in general.
So hard to settle on a reaction for this.
The RoC doesn’t make much RAM, to my knowledge. It’s the RoK that does that. Samsung, Micron, and SK Hynix all have their own fabs.
Ah, good, that makes this less of a dilemma then.
Detach from the geopolitics - another way to make memory has been announced at a time when much of the technology and product has been tied up by massive global investments. This could help ease the current memory drought. Will it still be around after the AI bubble pops? This fabrication process could be like fracking - an expense only justified by the current high cost of supply. Is it worth investing in if the bubble pops and kills any gains, evaporating the money sunk into it? Does China and the 1% want to take the risk that this new fab process works and scales? That’s the real stakes.
Yeah, this is the correct take, I feel.
Yeah, this is a bit of a dilemma, to be sure.
I’ll believe it when I see it. Lots of news of supposed breakthroughs in China all the time but hardly any of it actually leads to anything concrete so far.
The 90s have called. They want their take on China back.
The biggest obstacles to China’s successful future, the CCP and PLA. If Taipei took over Peking, then watch out.
LoL. 80% of literally all poverty alleviation in the entire world over the last 70 years was done by the CPC. The CPC 5-year planning process led to the establishment of Chinese university dominance in at least 36 of the tracked 48 high tech fields in the world and it’s not even close - in some high tech fields China holds all of the top 10 spots. The CPC presided over literally the largest and fastest industrialization process the world has ever seen.
