I mean everything China manages to catch up on quickly is either bought or reverse engineered stolen goods. That’s why they’re so “good” at catching up. They don’t have to innovate. They only have to copy and mass produce to get good at it.
Good. Fuck intellectual property, I just want cheap RAM lmao. Hope they start exporting.
Doesn’t make financial sense to start exporting at this point when they need RAM at home for their AI and computers.
If they do start selling abroad, it’ll probably be comparable price to the big 3 since they also want profit, unless they manage to get enough volume going to just strangle the big 3, sell RAM for much less than it costs to make and then ramp up the prices when there’s no competition anymore.
Could it make strategic sense? As in if they do export consumer grade ram, they could encourage more llm selfhosting, and as the approach from qwen and deepseek appears to be to release quite advanced models as open (from what I have read) they could potentially undermine large ai firms not open sourcing their models. Just a thought
Good, fuck Samsung because they have been part of the cartel that has been blatantly increasing prices slowly over the years and then joined the AI slop fest and increased prices exponentially and they show no signs of reducing prices to make tech that’s using their chips more affordable so again fuck Samsung and let’s open the floodgates and start the chipocalypse!
Cool. We need the chips.
Besides, no corporation seeks doing it the hard way if they can copy, reverse engineer, etc. from its competitors. I’ve worked for several corporations that had a Competitive Intelligence departments whose job was to acquire competitors’ products, disassemble, catalog parts, reverse engineer the interesting bits so they could make recommendations for what to copy in their own products.
Not only do companies do this themselves. But it’s an entire industry in itself of businesses that do this as a service.
They then charge ridiculous prices for you to search through the data to find parts you are looking for. But it’s actually quite useful and saves a bunch of time hunting and breaking things apart.
E.g. Munro and Associates.
amazing, if they don’t want to produce more chips, then others should be able to.
It’s bad business nowadays not to steal.
