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0 pointsshdh21h ago0 comments

Yeah, more global competition in DRAM would be great.

SK Hynix and Samsung are South Korean.

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> SK Hynix and Samsung are South Korean.

The Korean memory makers are playing the same game as Micron and simply moving existing capacity up-market.

GP was referring to upstart Chinese memory manufacturers like ChangXin, who - if their yields manage to catch the wave - could not have asked for a more favorable market after the big 3 have abandoned the consumer segment. Consumers who would have otherwise turned up their noses at CXMT will not have the luxury.

xbmcuser19h ago

Chinese manufacturers will probably takeover consumer ram that most of us use as current manufacturing contracts expire and Samsung SK and micron move all their production to HBM for data centers. Corsair recently released chinese chips based DDR5 sticks.

throawayonthe18h ago

> Corsair recently released chinese chips based DDR5 sticks.

hm interesting

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ddr5/chinese-memo...

Incipient12h ago

I've so far been anti-chinese memory in my recommendations, not because it's Chinese (I don't really trust any big organisation/govt other than the EU?) but because they've been very new, and it's not worth PC stability for saving $50.

However with corsair giving it their blessing, and their technology having matured a bit (a lot?), and more reviews showing good stability (longevity I suppose, is TBD) they're definitely worth recommending these days.

esperent9h ago

Right, so exactly two countries in the world control most of the memory market (US and Korra). As the person above said, more global competition would be great.

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