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Title: Corsair has started sourcing Chinese RAM
Post by: Redaktion on May 24, 2026, 01:56:06
Corsair releases its first RAM kit not equipped with memory bought from Hynix, Micron, or Samsung, instead sourcing from Chinese manufacturer CXMT.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Corsair-has-started-sourcing-Chinese-RAM.1304222.0.html
Title: Re: Corsair has started sourcing Chinese RAM
Post by: Bobbers on August 21, 2026, 06:55:09
The big 3 will just make less ram to keep demand high. They aren't gonna take a loss considering the current profits lol shareholders won't allow it.
Title: Re: Corsair has started sourcing Chinese RAM
Post by: another name on August 21, 2026, 10:11:07
Bobbers, correct, they will keep memory supply limited to cash-in on AI, as they are not a non-profit, after all.

Although demand should be naturally (very) high, considering how many hundreds AI datacenters are being built right now, and running AI locally is an ever-growing thing, too (topic=315954).

Sourcing from CXMT kinda proves that they can't even produce enough for themselves, or at least that its majority goes to enterprise-paying customers?

Memory fabs are also being built. Even closed-weight LLM providers don't seem to have a secret sauce, as Kimi K3 has shown, so as LLMs become bigger, memory demand also will continue to grow, if there's no major breakthrough in LLM architecture.