The DRAM Cartel - Price Fixing, Anti-Consumer Collusion, & Corporate Conspiracy

THE DRAM CARTEL: With absurd RAM prices and shortages of desktop memory, we've noticed a lot of parallels between the current AI demand (or "demand") for memory and the DRAM Cartel eras of the industry. This especially feels familiar with reservations of memory not yet manufactured for data centers not yet guaranteed. In this special report and deep-dive documentary, we dig deep through the archives of the internet, magazines, and newspapers to compile a definitive history of the DRAM Cartel, plus its modern parallels to the AI industry. Our documentary covers the memory price-fixing scandal of 1998-2002, additional price fixing conspiracy allegations in 2016-2022, and all the ways in which the memory makers have stabbed each other in the back over the last 60 years. This deep-dive report took our team OVER 255 HOURS of editing, writing, art, and research to put together. WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT to be able to afford videos like this. Please consider grabbing one of our items on our store: