Micron locks in historically high memory prices for five years. Nice work AI bros.
What an absolute shit show.
https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/06/25/micron-locks-in-historically-high-memory-prices-for-five-years/5261854Open linkView original on lemmy.world
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This used to be called ‘price fixing’. Now it’s just normal business. I hope China starts to mass produce more ram and floods the market.
same.
I hope my 1070ti can chug along for another five years...
If by chug along you mean just live and allow you to browse and play some light 2D games - yeah, probably. For anything else bad news for you, not even Nvidia is going to update drivers for it anymore. I survived on 980 for over 10 years until the fan bearings died.
You could just rip off the shroud and strap some Noctua fans onto it with zip ties. Cyberpunk as fuck.
With the price of Noctua fans you might as well just get another 980 or any other budget/old GPU that's even better. Some old hardware is simply not worth repairing, especially when software support is also non existent at this point.
20" Lasko fans are still just $20, and you can use the box it comes in to shroud it to your GPU.
I still have a functioning gtx 970 that I can play FFXIV on, but it won't last 5 years.
hoping a gpu finds it's way to you soon man.
So when the bubble pops they'll just stop selling while the other sellers continue?
Yeah I don't think so, unless all sellers "lock in" their prices for 5 years it isn't happening and they're just saying this to get more companies to buy at high prices. If all of them do "lock in" their prices then this will probably be the second time the memory cartel is fined.
it's surreal that even if this was their goal, that they'd put it in print....
Sounds familiar - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM_price_fixing_scandal
When regulation meant actual regulation and not this techno oligarchy shit for "regulation to prevent regulations"
yep shit's rhyming really well
MicroCon
give 'em enough time and it'll be a macrocon