It's just the RAM cartel up to their same tricks they've been doing periodically clear past the '90s, but camouflaged behind paper thin SJW AI derangement moral panic. It'll pass just like every other time once the lawsuits start hitting the dockets.
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FAKE NEWS
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Unlike, for instance, the previous PoW ponzicoin fad that specifically gobbled up retail consoomer gayman HW, this current RAM price spike looks like just the same plain old pricefixing the cartel's been prosecuted for in 2002, 2006, 2010, and 2017:
https://www.xda-developers.com/dram-prices-spiking-dont-trust-industry-reasons/
Intentionally cutting production for years, hoarding inventory, shifting remaining production away from less profitable to the most lucrative chips, consolidation, all against a backdrop of constantly increasing demand and revenues.
This definitely would've happened even without some trendy datacenter bubble exacerbating it