Japan-Korea Trade Spat and Toshiba Blackout Hike DRAM Prices by 20 Percent

R-T-B · Jul 25, 2019

windwhirl said:
I don't know how power-intensive those fabs are, but those blackouts seem to happen veeeery often lately.

Down here, they happened often enough that apartment buildings started buying backup generators. So why couldn't a multi-billion dollar company buy a bunch of generators, just in case? Heck, they probably have more than enough money to have their own power grids with triple backup, perfectly suited to their needs and more, all without making a dent in their profits...

If I were more naive, I'd say they are a bunch of incompetent fools.

I think it's more profitable to just let the "problem" happen and claim incompetence.

Zareek · Jul 25, 2019

R-T-B said:
I think it's more profitable to just let the "problem" happen and claim incompetence.

Pretty much in the same way it is more profitable to participate in price fixing and eventually pay fines that add up to less than 10% of your illegal profit.

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Japan-Korea Trade Spat and Toshiba Blackout Hike DRAM Prices by 20 Percent

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