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Huawei is building its own DRAM fab, and it could reshape RAM prices for everyone
(www.xda-developers.com)
this post was submitted on 26 Jul 2026
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It’ll still be embargoed.
It would still help for the same reason the strait of hormuz being closed is pushing up prices in the US despite us not actually using the oil from there. Any change in global supply has an effect on prices.
More for the rest of us then!
Yes, but it'll lighten the demand on other DRAM manufacturers, so we should still see some benefits.
Yeah, there’s already a few Chinese memory makers who have been ramping up production as fast as they can. Feels like a drop in a river though.
I've often wondered about this, how much trouble would you get in for that?
I suppose by the time you managed to get one to your country it wouldn't still be cost effective after the extra middle men?
Idk like surely they don't have sniffer dogs for RAM in packages do they?
If it was only a minor infraction with no jail time I'd seriously consider rolling the dice on it because I bet its like half the price of whatever equivalent they'll sell you in western countries. Can't do it with the cars but RAM seems do able for sure.
You need a motherboard, too. With secure boot permanently activated you will only be allowed to run windows, which only runs on properly registered hardware. But then again, with your motherboard, how do you run the internet verification app if your operating system doesn't get the keys to log in?
So, I can't import it? Sounds difficult to enforce.
The dells, hps and lenovos of the world can't sell it, so it's not in retail, so typical people won't really have access to it. Same deal with all the phone manufacturers and then basically any electronic device with NAND.
It can still provide pressure to lower price but it inhibits the effects locally quite a bit. It's like how super cheap cars can be imported to latin american countries but if you want anything remotely similar in the US the costs to get it here make it pointless and thus no cheap cars exist here brand new (more or less.)
The Nortel remembers.
Much like other things, prices are still set globally according to global supply and demand.
That price changes if you flood the market with ram
thatswhatisaid
Think it will have enough production volume before Ai implodes to make a difference?
CXMT and other Chinese producers already have been ramping up production, all signs still point to shortages for a year or until said theoretical Ai implosion where orders stop getting paid.
Any production volume is production volume and impacts price.