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sanitation to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days ago

Huawei is building its own DRAM fab, and it could reshape RAM prices for everyone

www.xda-developers.com

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Huawei is building its own DRAM fab, and it could reshape RAM prices for everyone

www.xda-developers.com

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The market is desperate for this, and it has been for a year
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    China speed will kick in and it will be next year they will own the market.

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      17 hours ago

      https://www.techpowerup.com/350726/chinese-cxmt-to-match-microns-dram-manufacturing-capacity-this-year

      China speed was even faster than you predicted. Lol.

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      Not likely. It doesn’t matter how much slave labor you throw at it, getting a new fabrication machine to the necessary precision to make modern chips requires a lot of time.

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        I mean making the machines to make chips and making a factory that uses said machines are two different things.

        There are already factories in China making DDR5 and DDR4 ram now days.

        Huawei would just provide the support and resources needed to scale up a new large factory.

        No slave labor needed. All you need is a modern, advanced, high skill, responsive industrial base which China has.

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          I mean making the machines to make chips and making a factory that uses said machines are two different things.

          True.

          There are already factories in China making DDR5 and DDR4 ram now days.

          Are they actually fabricating the silicon, or just packaging it?

          No slave labor needed. All you need is a modern, advanced, high skill, responsive industrial base which China has.

          Sure, like the people working at Foxconn:

          https://truthout.org/articles/a-suicide-survivor-the-life-of-a-chinese-migrant-worker-at-foxconn/

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            Huh. I was skeptical of “China speed” but they were right. Lol.

            https://www.techpowerup.com/350726/chinese-cxmt-to-match-microns-dram-manufacturing-capacity-this-year

            I’m just glad for lower ram prices.

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            They are making it from scratch. There are lots of sources but this is the first one I found. I assume they package it as well.

            https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ddr5/chinese-memory-maker-cxmt-enters-the-mainstream-consumer-memory-with-corsair-vengeance-ddr5-kit-chinese-made-dram-emerges-as-an-antidote-for-crushing-shortages

            Foxcom assembles sub models into complete products. Still higher than slave labor level skills, but not as high as chip fabrication I admit. You need a skill base to assemble phones at a high level.

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        China speed proves real every time though

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      Cxmt is already one of their most valuable companies in the stock market

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        My guess is this is why Huawei wants in on the action

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      They have a domestic market to serve first. And they are fast at scaling up - but not that fast.
      Give them half a decade.

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