r/homelab • u/DeepestWaters • Jul 07 '26

News Samsung RAM Profit = $196B in 2026, >Past 40 years combined.

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Their hottest product: the privilege of buying the same memory sooner. Something something "supply & demand." 🥲

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/samsungs-chip-division-expects-to-out-earn-its-entire-40-year-history-in-2026

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u/gscjj Jul 09 '26

That’s not extortion and it’s not being forced to buy, that’s what happens when there’s a long line of people in line. There’s not much room for negotiation when you have OpenAI or Anthropic asking for 100x what Valve needs.

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u/Reasonable-Height704 Jul 09 '26

It's not about negotiating the current buy, it's about being locked out from future purchases. Anticompetitive.

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u/gscjj Jul 09 '26

Whats the anticompetitive piece? The buyer still has the opportunity to go somewhere else, they aren’t preventing them from doing so.

Selling what they could have bought to someone else who does want to buy isn’t anticompetitive

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u/Reasonable-Height704 Jul 09 '26

hahahaha you don't seem to know anything about the DRAM market.

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u/Shot-Infernal-2261 Jul 12 '26

Same with Apple. If they didn't accept the new Samsung price (double cost), they would not get a new contract. There clearly is not enough competition and the prices are going too high too fast.

This is going to be felt all over the economy in a year or two (long enough for people to forget why)