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GPU - now the price of a 5 year old Toyota.
RAM - 10x price hike in the last year
CPUs - prices increasing faster than processing speed
Economy - destroyed
Wages - stagnant
Social contract for young adults - Broken
Motherboard manufacturers - “why is no one buying our products?”
Intel could be making money right now, but they refuse to sell the 273PQE to consumers.
Yeah, "weak demand" is a bullshit argument. It's "hey, I'd love to build a new PC but I can't fucking afford half the components anymore so I'm not getting any"
I mean, its econ/business lingo.
Its not an argument, its just a description of what is happening.
Weak demand pretty much means 'less people are buying this thing'.
Its a pretty well known phenomenon that if you raise prices too high, or all your customers become broke in some other way, have their purchasing power diminished... that's referred to as 'demand destruction'.
You could also destroy demand if you maybe worsen the quality of the thing you're selling, but keep the price the same or even raise it.
(cough AAA video games cough)
But, but... I will give you that this kind of phrasing does sound, to the average person, as if it is grammatically obscuring what's going on, or shifting the blame to consumers.
A lot of business/econ lingo is subtly insidious in that way.
Maybe motherboard manufacturers should've been telling off the others so they don't fuck over the consumers. But they didn't say a word like all the rest of them. They just sat and watched.
Now they reap their harvest after they ignored the weeds.
I don't think motherboard manufacturers are askign that question. I think they're asking "why aren't the RAM manufacturers making enough RAM? Why aren't the GPU manufacturers making enough GPUs?"
Consumer case manufacturers and power supply manufacturers too. These few oligopolies on key components are screwing over more than just their own consumers.
Fair point there.
Well when you put it like that, I see why the manufacturers are so confused...