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You mean the shortage that's purposefully engineered to price everyone out of the market and push them onto the cloud?
I don't think it was purposefully engineered. I'm pretty sure it takes over a decade to ramp up production.
It is on purpose
It's RAM, they can ramp it up in 2-3 years tops.
They just don't want to. When they did it last time demand plummeted and we got cheap RAM.
For my 64 GB 6000 CL30 I paid 200€ last year. They don't want a repeat of that, especially with the Chinese now catching up.
It makes sense that they are reluctant to make investments. Building new data centers will presumably require more new RAM units then maintaining those that are already in existence. The large influx of new infrastructure is a temporary condition.
Regardless, a quick Google search indicates that about a half a trillion dollars has recently been spent on building new foundries in the United States. Since the release of ChatGPT in late 2022 coincides with the spike in demand, we are only just at the point where these investments could come into fruition.