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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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Episode 7893 of corporations artificially creating problems to make profit by selling the solution. Just to then fail at solving the problem of their own creation.
Brilliant economic system. You can marvel at its ingenuity and just get lost in it.
They aren’t artificially creating this problem, they are inadvertently creating this problem.
AI companies need RAM and other compute components to feed the AI beast which drives up demand, and cost but reduces supply for everyone, including their Xbox and Surface divisions.
Given their enterprise divisions make vastly more money than their consumer divisions, nothing will change.
But does anyone need ai companies?
The fact that the major players are still in business means someone thinks so.
Are they still 'in business' though? They're burning through money they don't even have at a never before seen rate. Just to make barely useful software that works 20% of the time at best.
I feel like it's the same as saying the banks and real estate companies were 'still in business' in 2008. Naturally, time will tell if it's the same cycle repeating. So far everything seems to be pointing in that direction.
Many companies operate without making a profit, sometimes it’s because they aren’t making enough money and sometimes they invest it back into the business.
Regardless, SpaceX is about to go public with a valuation of $1.8 trillion, and they arent profitable.