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Huawei is building its own DRAM fab, and it could reshape RAM prices for everyone
www.xda-developers.com/huawei-is-building-its-own-dram-fab-and-it-could-reshape-ram-prices-for-everyone/
XDAHuawei is building its own DRAM fab, and it could reshape RAM prices for everyoneThe market is desperate for this, and it has been for a year
Replying to @sanitation@lemmy.today
Protectionists complain about Chinese market dominance, yet Chinese companies are the only ones entering the DRAM market in response to the dramatic increase in demand.
Replying to @Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz
It is way too late to be starting a new chip fab for it to be relevant to the current market. If they are producing reliable chips 5 years from now that’ll be fast.
Replying to @NaibofTabr@infosec.pub
China speed will kick in and it will be next year they will own the market.
Replying to @MyOpinion@lemmy.today
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.
Replying to @NaibofTabr@infosec.pub
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.
Replying to @mholiv@lemmy.world
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:
TruthoutA Suicide Survivor: The Life of a Chinese Migrant Worker at FoxconnIn 2010, 18 employees working for Foxconn in China attempted suicide. These shocking events focused world attention on the manufacturing supply chains of China’s export industry and the experience of…Replying to @NaibofTabr@infosec.pub
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.
tomshardware.com/…/chinese-memory-maker-cxmt-ente…
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.
Tom's HardwareChinese memory maker CXMT enters mainstream consumer memory with Corsair Vengeance DDR5 kit — Chinese-made DRAM emerges as an antidote for crushing shortagesCorsair typically only buys from Micron, Samsung, or SK Hynix.