[roenxi]

This sounds like a plan to sell less when prices are high and more when prices are low. That is one of the stupidest strategies a company could adopt. I assure you, the RAM makers are pumping out as much as they can and increasing capacity as fast as they think the market can handle.

I'm not sure what world we live in when the scheming capitalists are all hunched around their table working out how to dodge selling their products into an enormous price boom. Do they not like money all of a sudden?

[Tuna-Fish]

Building new capacity takes years. The idea is that the market is reliably cyclical, so you should expand when there is a downturn, when costs are low and you can afford the short-term capacity hits that expansion causes (fe. when you divide productive teams in two and fill both halves to full strength with new hires).

[roenxi]

If you prefer. But we seem to have gone from "undersupply in a boom" to a strategy of oversupplying so aggressively that manufacturers would finish ramping up supply well before the boom before it even happens. And that would be a better strategy.