{"id":108,"date":"2025-12-14T17:31:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T17:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/network23.org\/rrraksamam\/?p=108"},"modified":"2025-12-14T17:32:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T17:32:24","slug":"an-open-letter-to-ram-and-ssd-manufacturers-worldwide-dec-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/network23.org\/rrraksamam\/2025\/12\/14\/an-open-letter-to-ram-and-ssd-manufacturers-worldwide-dec-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"An Open Letter To RAM and SSD Manufacturers Worldwide &#8211; Dec 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron, Western Digital, Kingston, Kioxia, Transcend, Intel, and the rest,<\/p>\n<p>Hello!<br \/>\nGreetings ladies and gentlemen,<\/p>\n<p>Over the past 2 months, RAM and SSD prices have jacked up quite significantly across the globe.<br \/>\nMicron has given the finger to the consumers and turned exclusively to enterprise solutions.<br \/>\nThere are reports that Samsung may be planning to do something similar.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s nothing personal.<br \/>\nStrictly business.<br \/>\nAnd business is booming!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The WWE Universe erupts as Shane McMahon re-emerges on Monday Night Raw: Raw, February 23, 2016\" width=\"605\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ndjafgpVStc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>All the CEOs and shareholders drowning in money.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/media1.tenor.com\/m\/yF8hJXvLT74AAAAC\/dave-chappelle-money.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media1.tenor.com\/m\/yF8hJXvLT74AAAAC\/dave-chappelle-money.gif\" width=\"498\" height=\"378\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nEmployees cheering on as they might get a decent bonus soon.<\/p>\n<p>Wow!<br \/>\nI am happy for you.<\/p>\n<p>But what about the rest of the world?<br \/>\nThe SSD prices have doubled and tripled, but my paycheck remains the same.<br \/>\nHas anyone else&#8217;s salary doubled or tripled over the last two months? Anyone?<\/p>\n<p>AI demand has led you to this.<br \/>\nOh yes, AI.<br \/>\nChatGPT &amp; Copilot.<\/p>\n<p>What happens when people stop using AI?<br \/>\n&#8220;Never gonna happen,&#8221; you say.<br \/>\nSure, Gen Z geniuses have found a new way to stay on par with the rest of civilization.<br \/>\nBut what about the rest of the people?<\/p>\n<p>Do you really think AI is the future of the planet at the cost of consumer market?<br \/>\nIf my computer can barely run basic tasks thanks to low RAM and no SSD, do you think I&#8217;d be utilizing some bullshit AI products for fun?<\/p>\n<p>A lot of genius CEOs have buried their companies thanks to their arrogance in thinking that the world needs them.<br \/>\nMark Zuckerberg with his Meta bullshit.<br \/>\nSatya Nadella with his Windows 11.<br \/>\nSundar Pichai and his predecessors with their dozens of products that died along the way.<\/p>\n<p>Does the world need Meta?<br \/>\nNo.<\/p>\n<p>Does the world need Microsoft?<br \/>\nNo.<\/p>\n<p>Does the world need Google?<br \/>\nNo.<\/p>\n<p>Each time some cocksucker CEO and his crew of greedy shareholders make a fucked up decision to screw over the consumers, some small company is always waiting along the sidelines to take over the market.<br \/>\nAsk your friends at Intel. Ask them how they truly feel about AMD.<\/p>\n<p>You, my friends, have been put on notice.<\/p>\n<p>Drop the prices, stop fiddling with production and fucking with the consumer market, and get your priorities in order.<\/p>\n<p>I understand you have a burning question in your minds right now.<br \/>\n&#8220;Who the fuck are you and why would we listen to you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NTO &amp; Monolink - Beyond Control (Official Video)\" width=\"605\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3Xj9pJECk2o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/G6zqojUXoAARsQZ.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/G6zqojUXoAARsQZ.jpg\" width=\"900\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron, Western Digital, Kingston, Kioxia, Transcend, Intel, and the rest, Hello! Greetings ladies and gentlemen, Over the past 2 months, RAM and SSD prices have jacked up quite significantly across the globe. Micron has given the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/network23.org\/rrraksamam\/2025\/12\/14\/an-open-letter-to-ram-and-ssd-manufacturers-worldwide-dec-2025\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An Open Letter To RAM and SSD Manufacturers Worldwide &#8211; Dec 2025<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1070,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[24,23,25,19,16,17,26,14,22,20,12,13,21,18,15],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-ai","tag-chatgpt","tag-copilot","tag-intel","tag-kingston","tag-kioxia","tag-market","tag-micron","tag-microsoft","tag-ram","tag-samsung","tag-sk-hynix","tag-ssd","tag-transcend","tag-western-digital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/network23.org\/rrraksamam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/network23.org\/rrraksamam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/network23.org\/rrraksamam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/network23.org\/rrraksamam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1070"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/network23.org\/rrraksamam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/network23.org\/rrraksamam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"https:\/\/network23.org\/rrraksamam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/network23.org\/rrraksamam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/network23.org\/rrraksamam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/network23.org\/rrraksamam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}