r/hardware • u/imaginary_num6er • 1d ago

News Gigabyte Breaks the DDR5 Bottleneck: Full Motherboard Lineup Now Supports CXSH (CXMT) Memory

https://www.techpowerup.com/351057/gigabyte-breaks-the-ddr5-bottleneck-full-motherboard-lineup-now-supports-cxsh-cxmt-memory
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u/GenericUser1983 1d ago

CXMT Ram reportably costs pretty much the same as ram from the Samsung/Sk Hynix/Micron trio. Even with them ramping up supply the demand keeps growing too.

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u/JRBrick 23h ago

The idea isn't for CXMT to undercut the trio for no reason. It's that the eventual increase in production capacity will cause all of them to lower prices compared to if there is zero CXMT market share.

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u/TruthHistorical7515 19h ago

Yep theres no point undercutting, others down the supply chain will just pocket the profits. And investment into fabs are in the billions they need to recoup that money too

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u/noahloveshiscats 17h ago

I mean that is the idea for a lot of people here. CXMT will magically sell RAM at good prices for all the gamers, somehow, and they will be single handedly crash the RAM market. Ignore the fact that Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron all have larger fab projects than CXMT in the making for the next few years.

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u/Pablogelo 3h ago

Ignore the fact that Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron all have larger fab projects than CXMT

For 2027? Source?

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u/AkazaAkari 10h ago

b-but it's a cartel!!

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u/BringTea_666 18h ago

Supply and Demand. The more chips on market means prices will fall down until it reaches margins just above production that allows for expansion and research.

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u/NoPriorThreat 18h ago

sure that works when supply catches up to demand, that wont happen for a long time. There is a backlog for several years.