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Honestly long overdue, RAM manufacturers showed their hand as a cartel last year
If only Europe could even be in the conversation, let alone manufacturing SOTA
Wasn't it the other way around? IIRC they both got played by OpenAI because they didn't know there was another deal going down at the same time.
(Not saying they didn't massively profit from the situation in the end)
EU should stop selling fablabs lol what a mess it would be.
Last year? They've been a cartel for far longer than that... The early 2000s there were multiple indictments including some executives serving time in jail. Early 2010s the EU fined the cartels. Then even in the late 2010s there was a suit over price fixing... They've just gotten better at their cartel operations to dodge litigation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM_price_fixing_scandal