Now I understand why NVMe flash drive prices have rocketed up to triple the normal in the last few months! The AI hyperscalers aren't just sucking up the wafer runs for memory, they're also monopolising the wafers for SSDs.
The best part is the wafers are being bought with no plans to use them; just to keep them in storage so that competition cannot easily access RAM. Supervillain shit, should have been the last straw for PG to publicly denounce Sam and for OpenAI to be sued by the US government for anticompetitive practices. All this does is harm the consumer. Of course that ks never going to happen.
I guess the memory companies loved the deal because they knew prices would skyrocket. I wonder if there are rules against cornering the market that apply here.
All in all, it stinks.
but they do because they prefer holding commodities to us dollars