Are you ready for the RAM crisis to last another 3 years? We could see ''meaningful price increases' by the end of this year — and there's no light at the end of the tunnel
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Chatter on the grapevine, and from analyst firms, about the memory supply shortage has taken another gloomy turn.
  • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    If I had a few billion for a TSMC factory, I would…

    This is what I’m referencing. The memory sits on the package with the processor, connected with thousands of microscopic traces, so fine it needs an expensive substrate rather than a typical PCB, and expensive equipment to assemble:

    The connectors are tiny, and made with immense precision. There are about a thousand reasons you can’t just transfer HBM once its been used, and besides; other memory controllers wouldnt’ support it.