If it means I might be able to upgrade in the future, so be it.
If you’re in the US you won’t. Guarantee that Trump will slap enough tariffs on them that they’re more expensive than current prices.
Oh well, price they pay for putting that orange diaper turd in power, twice.
More for the rest of us 😊
More supply should still lower prices, even if Trump puts tariffs on Chinese dram/nand. While there might be some quality differences in the end dram/nand still is a commodity good that is for the most part interchangeable (assuming it meets some standards).
So China would just supply everyone else leaving more capacity from other manufacturers like micron for the US.
Should still put pressure on the big 3 to drop prices HOPEFULLY. Because those of us not in the US will enjoy actual competition.
Why? It’s not like the U.S manufactures RAM and that Chinese RAM would compete with them.
Micron is an American company and does manufacture in the US in addition to multiple other countries actually.
Not sure if the Koreans do any of their DRAM or NAND manufacturing in the US and too lazy to google at this point
Well the current ones we have sure aren’t trying to keep it.
Just a matter of time before these guys are supplying ML card manufacturers with slower memory that works well enough for ML use cases at a fraction of the current prices.
Import and trade restrictions exist in some places but if the rest of the world buys the cheaper Chinese stuff that works about the same then the rug will come out from under the current guys and they will literally never recover.
Guessing the short term profits are all worth it to them, like the typical VC.
China coming to save the PC gaming market
i dunno. i just worked on one of their ‘gaming’ rigs. weird chinese-branded everything. 3 months old, won’t stay running. crashes constantly. re-installs don’t help. it’s trash. the vendor has all but disappeared. still has their storefront but they don’t answer, and amazon won’t help either.
even though i swapped out the atrocious no-name motherboard so now it’s at least usable, i expect to see it again with a failed psu, gpu, or ram.
they might make it on availability or price, but longevity or reliability they have a lot of work to do.
There are reliable and crap Chinese brands. This is not really relevant in this conversation. (plus manufacturing defects can go unnoticed with any brand) It’s merely a data point of one.
CXMT and YMTC should be a bit more serious operations than whoever made your no-name parts.
None of that matters. If they make stable ram I don’t care about their “gaming rigs”
Sounds pretty similar to my experience with Samsung and Gigabyte
So you’re saying they just need to scoot back their planned obsolescence a bit to align with western stuff.
Last week, GLM 5.3 flash was the most used model in the world (they made it free for that week). When the week ended, they announced that it had been a stress test for their entirely chinese inference infrastructure.
Goodbye Nvidia.
I really hope they fuck Samsung up, who have been fucking customers up for over a decade now (namelly ever since they started enshittifying their products), not just this latest shit with memory.
I was going to say that there are a couple more companies I would like to see fall even more than Samsung but I started thinking about it and in between US tech giants, most AAA Games companies, various propaganda “Press” empires around the World and the likes of Sony, it does add up to more than “a couple”.
Still, Samsung getting fucked up is a very good thing in itself.
Don’t even care all that much about the cheaper memory, as long as they fuck Samsung up!
Just a rant, but Samsung was shitty long before they started enshittifying on purpose. Their phones had some of the heaviest custom Android UI back when phones were fairly low spec and budget phones (which Samsung had the most models of out of the big players) in particular were slooow. Their TV UI is OK, but a low-midrange TV in 2019 when I bought mine was still pretty damn laggy. That’s before they started shoving ads in their TVs and it was already shit.
The company is too big for its own good. It can outspend pretty much anyone on marketing so it doesn’t need to make good products. It’s also got a million different businesses so if one fails, nothing happens. Smartphones sell poorly for a few years? No worries, we still make cargo ships and build skyscrapers and sell life insurance.
Their phones had some of the heaviest custom Android UI back when phones were fairly low spec and budget phones
Yeah, that’s when IMHO they started to enshittify and I turned against them - the over-stuffing of their devices with impossible to remove useless junk together with pushing out ever larger OS updates was their main planned obsolescence mechanism for smartphones and tablets.
Once upon a time, maybe 2-3 decades ago, Samsung was quite a decent brand for consumer electronics such as TVs.
Their “evolution” was pretty similar to Sony’s - started as a very good electronics brand during (literally) the last century and then at some point in the 00s started enshittifying - though if I remember it correctly Samsung went down that route a bit later than Sony (who had already turned anti-consumer and started lobbying for things like the DMCA even before the Rootkit Scandal in 2005).
Anyways, I do agree with you that their memory business sinking would not be enough to take them down, though as a I see it, that’s a big enough and profitable enough slice of their business to hurt them if they loose a significant fraction of their market share plus, more in general, every little bit helps.
PS: Judging by this, their semiconductor division is the only one that showed a profit in Q2 2026.
Good
I’d rather buy Chinese shit than American
Price war go!
Pic not relevant
I see SSDs, what do you see?
