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We don't know, but we have another explanation: consumers went to buy from all three memory manufacturers at once, offering the same, high price.
The problem lies in 3 companies owning a monopoly on dram production and all conspiring together to make things shit for everyone who isn't them
3 companies can’t all have a monopoly on the same thing lol
If they're running a price-fixing scheme they sure can