China's Tsinghua could drive down the price of RAM and SSDs

[cobito]

Tsinghua Unigroup is going to invest 30 billion in a new DRAM and NAND memory factory.

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[cobito]

Taking advantage of this thread, it seems that prices will remain high in 2018. Production will increase next year, but it will not be enough to quench the market's thirst.

Whether it is a marketing ploy to get people to buy before prices drop, propaganda from the three manufacturers who control 90% of the market to agree on prices by hiding behind a lack of production, or simply a portrait of what is to come, it is clear that today RAM is not a product for everyone, knowing what the price per kilo was a year ago.

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[whoololon]

I compare this to oil: when a surplus is expected, before putting it on the market and the price drops, I hold it in the silo until the next campaign.