Comrade Xi, save my people from capitalist oppression!
China: I’m sorry but your sanctions don’t allow.
There is no chip shortage. There are plenty of chips they’re just not being sold to consumers.
This is an important distinction.
Although CXMT is accused of stealing technology from Samsung to build its first DDR5 chips, the limited global memory supply could lead desperate companies to overlook this and buy memory chips from the company.
Samsung, Apple, et al have stolen from each other at every turn from everyone and with no consequence. Who gaf that this Chinese company did it, too?
After all, most end users wouldn’t care where the memory chips in their laptops and pre-built PCs come from, as long as they perform well and are
competitivelyfairly pricedFixed it.
As long as we don’t get a ram version of the whole capacitor fiasco from the gen 1 xbox days
Fortunately bad quality DRAM can be found out much quicker than bad quality capacitors.
The way I see it, if you want to play video games you will have to be happy with cloud gaming slop or buy some obscure GPUs, SSDs and RAM from Chinese companies you have never heard of. The days of Nvidia and AMD for end consumer products are soon over. They don‘t care about us. I hate this development but it is what it is.
just play older games. they are usually better anyway
The paranoid in me wonders though… can DRAM be backdoored? I’d bet ‘yes’, and this would be a perfect opening to introduce a huge amount of compromised hardware to the world market…
Anything can be backdoor… In, but I’m really struggling to see how you could do something useful with a dram chip. In theory, if it were smart enough, it could analyze the data that’s being stored and manipulated in some way, but there’s no way a dram module would have the processing power and brains to do anything useful with this.
And memory manipulation would be about the most it could accomplish because the dram modules themselves don’t have signal lines that can control anything. They basically have data alliance address lines, return lines, power ground and control circuitry. They can’t affect the rest of the motherboard/ computer other than subverting data… And computers tend to be pretty good at catching memory that doesn’t store data properly.
If you tried hard enough, you could figure out a scenario where this could work, but I don’t think this is something we really need to worry about.
I’m sure it can, like any component. But we’re all running computers full of chips from American companies, and the USA isn’t any more trustworthy. It’s not a huge change.
