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Surely if the bubble pops then micron are doing great as the deals are already agreed, but that RAM won't be worth what companies paid for it either. What would they do with it, try and sell it off to recover some of the cost of the RAM they no longer need?
Or micron reintroduces consumer ram while their competitors are locked into the bubble price. They then proceed to monopolize the market and things get worse
At this rate I suspect by 2035 I will be running a pi zero 3/4 as my main PC.
Hey, that ain't your 256MB of RAM.
It doesn't really matter. It's an oligopol and they can set the prices however they want. There's no alternative, since everyone - businesses and consumers alike - needs their product.
China can't and won't be able to compete, since they are far too much behind in manufacturing, chasing a moving target.
I don't need to buy a more powerful PC if I don't want to. I could game on 2GB just fine. I game on 32GB because when I bought it I could afford it and wanted to, but it isn't a hard requirement. Still running an RTX2070 and see no reason to upgrade, when it dies the lowest spec GPU will probably be an upgrade.