a company like Asus depends on others so much, it is a lifeline. if that line is cut, it is automatically completely game over for this huge company. no memory is no products to sell.
you better change Asus. or just give up.
memory is only becoming more important if we even get working androids. So are chips.
many restaurants in the world grow their own. importing means lots of aircraft fuel, cost is higher, you have no control over quality.
We talk so much about airpolution that we have to stop pumping co2 into the air, but as you see, efficientcy, efficientcy! And totally forget our welbeing of our earth.
Tldr- this was never going to happen. Ever lol
China has tried for decades to get their DRAM to have performance parity to SK/Samsung/Micron.
What makes you think Asus can get there in 2 years starting from ground zero. Even if they had billions to invest on this suicide mission which they don't its not as simple as building a factory.
taiwan doesn't really have much stake in the memory business
the vast majority of market share belongs to samsung (kr), sk hynix (kr), and micron (us)
companies like nanya (tw) and winbond (tw) are tiny by comparison
What the fuck kind of comment is this? Yes, it was ten years ago. That doesn't mean it is irrelevant or didn't happen. It is precisely on topic and addresses the parent article directly.
The article says that Asus is not planning to enter DRAM manufacturing and I pointed out that Taiwan lost big money on DRAM in the last bubble then provided an article to demonstrate that this is a fact.
And you mouthbreathers are responding with. . . but it happened ten years ago. And. . . what the fuck does that have to do with anything?
There's no plausible scenario where ASUS entering the DRAM market would help anyone other than their shareholders.
>Asus denied the report, specifically stating that it has "no plans to invest in a memory wafer fab."
They're explicitly just buying existing memory chips to sell themselves. Moving those increased costs into higher costs for consumer goods and bigger profits from themselves.
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