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  • rsandru - Tuesday, February 6, 2018 - link

    Well done SK Hynix.

    Now can you please get back to reality and produce more DDR4? Current prices are just insane.
  • Pork@III - Tuesday, February 6, 2018 - link

    Reality is too poor. In fantasy world of speculations have more money.
  • wrkingclass_hero - Tuesday, February 6, 2018 - link

    SK Hynix just posted record profits. This "shortage" is pure market manipulation. Look at the profits for all of the memory fabs, and compare it to the "shortage" timeline. You'll see that they're all doing better than ever on what should be lean years. Unless federal/ legal regulations come down hard on them, or a new player comes into the market, I don't see things changing for the time being.
  • MrSpadge - Wednesday, February 7, 2018 - link

    To be fair, they need to pay for R&D of the next processes and the next multi-billion $ fabs from the current profits during "fat" years. And... price fixing in the DRAM industry is completely unheard of, isn't it? ;/
  • peevee - Friday, February 9, 2018 - link

    These are profits. After R&D was subtracted from sales with all the other costs.
  • surt - Friday, February 9, 2018 - link

    Shortage years are always the best for manufacturers. They get killed in glut years when the prices are too low.
  • wumpus - Thursday, April 26, 2018 - link

    It also isn't clear that any manipulation was needed, from what I've heard the "shortage" was from Samsung selling tons of memory (this might just be the GDDR5 "shortage") to the Chinese phone market. It isn't like they are burying RAM or something.

    Note that the original RAM "price fixing" charges only happened after years of business rags whining about "damaging price wars" (i.e. not price fixing). Price fixing is the norm, and competition (especially in something as dominated by 2-3 companies like DRAM) is obvious in the rare price war.

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