This current memory shortage is intense. Spot prices for DDR5 DRAM ICs have quadrupled, and retail prices are often even higher. The desire for some new manufacturer to come along and ‘save’ the market from the worst excesses of the AI bubble is completely understandable. Still, certain reports in the tech media beggar belief, and one such widely disseminated story has prompted Taiwanese state media outlet CNA to go right to the supposed actor for an answer: “no.”
Said actor is Asus, and the rumor was…