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by WarOnPrivacy 116 days ago
Everyone here wants to be able to buy RAM at a reasonable price again.

After reading articles about CXMT and repeatedly reviewing the comments here - my take is there's nothing in play that will lead to reasonably priced RAM anytime soon.

If I'm wrong please illuminate us. We could use some hope.
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walterbell 116 days ago
Can Apple, Dell and HP lobbyists convince US regulators to lift restrictions on working with Chinese memory manufacturers, at least until Micron's new semiconductor fabs can ship US-made DRAM and SSDs to US OEMs in 2028? https://wccftech.com/cxmt-ymtc-removed-from-pentagon-list-op...

  The Pentagon has withdrawn the document that suggested updates to Section 1260H
https://www.wsj.com/tech/micron-is-spending-200-billion-to-b... | https://archive.is/XKSpC

  Each fab will be 600,000 square feet—the size of more than 10 football fields—making them some of the biggest “clean rooms” ever built in America. To prepare the site, engineers have already blasted through more than 7 million pounds of dynamite. An army of construction workers, building contractors and architects have set up a small city’s worth of trailers so they can work around the clock.
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