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The reason we have so few RAM manufacturers in the first place is that was (until just a few months ago) an extremely low margin business.

New production capacity takes years to bring online, and manufacturers are rightly cautious of the current demand bubble bursting, leaving them billions of dollars out of pocket.

"AI" is readily abundant all over the place, yet has no profit. I no longer believe the observably false claims that profit is somehow causal to availability.