PC hardware price inflation

why would they lower the prices if idiots still buy them at the current high prices? it's free money basically

Well DRAM and Flash both have all the major chipmakers in the same situation - having to pay off all the billions of dollars of fabs they've built and so more inclined to want to boost their margins than fight for market share. They're also redirecting more of their production towards mobile, since that's where more of the volume and growth is now.

GPUs, well, the second crypto crazy happened, you know that. AMD cards are in enormous demand for it. Nvidia cards are getting hit with price increases on GDDR memory, in addition to some people using them for mining anyway. And again, both sides are pretty okay with this state of affairs. AMD has been bleeding red ink for a decade, they're happy to rake in as much as they can. Nvidia is inclined to let them, since they still have a lot of the market and AMD's supply shortages mean they aren't really threatening to do them major damage.

And more broadly the PC market isn't hot shit anymore. Back in the 90s when everyone and their dog was buying a new PC every few years the steady flow of money from that vast market was producing huge economies of scale, and stuff was advancing so fast that the last-gen stuff got cheap quickly. Now Moore's Law is dead and buried and the market is stagnant at best.

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