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Microsoft doesn't know what to do about the memory pricing crisis Microsoft is causing
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this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2026
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Honestly, no. There is no fast way to spin up fabs for this stuff. A lot of lithography equipment for the top tier stuff is made by 1 supplier, stocking a shitload of fabs with the right gear just isn’t something they can do.
IMHO, the fastest way out of this mess would be for governments to regulate how supply is spilt between consumer and enterprise products.
So maybe invest in that and become another top-tier supplier of lithography equipment?
That's about as hard to do as making the chips in the first place... So that also would take 10+ years of r&d and build up.
There's a reason it's taken China literally decades to catch up with home grown alteratives and they still aren't entirely there.
Or just build hardware that's easier to make
I would gladly go back to 2012-era hardware if it meant I could afford it and people maintained software for it
But you can!
Just buy up used stuff, computers nowadays are very resilient.
I have a 6 gen intel Linux, works like a charm., and a 8 gen for "gaming n stuff" (windoze), I even got my hands on a recent laptop for 100€...
No need to buy that latest stuff, IMO.