On: Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM

[lovich]

Is there any allegations of price fixing in this case? The demand just skyrocketed. Other than legislation like the defense act in the US I don’t know of any governments that have jurisdiction over these ram makers that mandate companies produce more of a product.

Especially not for consumer goods.

[wmf → lovich]

If they're charging one customer $X and another customer $5X for the same chips... there's got to be some law about this.

[srdjanr → wmf]

I missed that this is happening, is it really? I thought it's 5X for everyone

[wmf → srdjanr]

Supposedly OpenAI is paying 2025 prices.

[niltecedu → wmf]

So you mean people with contracts are having their contracts honoured.... thats just normal business.