[Dylan16807]

Usually companies run out of resources before they screw up global prices in massive markets.

If it was a couple billion dollars of memory purchasing nobody would care.

[ben_w]

> Usually companies run out of resources before they screw up global prices in massive markets.

It happens more often than you might expect.

The Onion Futures Act and what led to it is always a fun read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_Futures_Act

[Aerroon]

The problem is that memory manufacturing is hard enough that there are essentially 3 major companies that do it globally: Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron.