That origin story came directly from a former Samsung Electronics engineer surnamed Jeon, according to Maeil Business. The veteran employee spent almost three decades at Samsung before...
  • Craccoon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27 minutes

    I couldn’t care less. Just make cheaper products with near or on par performance and you’re okay in my book.

  • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.ukEnglish
    5 hours

    Yeah, whatever, anyway are they making loads of RAM? Can I have 64GB of Ram for £300 again please?

  • rafoix@lemmy.zipEnglish
    9 hours

    Samsung uses monopoly tactics and government support to bankrupt smaller companies and then raise prices. They’re scum.

    RAM is so important to the world economy that their patents should be made public.

    • Funkt4st1c@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5 hours

      Computer components being privatized is almost as stupid as privatizing grain in the 1500s. Sure, there are alternatives, but… Are there?

  • Courtney (she/her/they) @lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    11 hours

    In a better world, all of these technologies that get stolen by various corpo espionage and reverse engineering teams would be freely shared with the world so everyone can benefit from them, and people not in the dev teams might have improvements they can suggest.

    But instead we have a bunch of rich adult children who would rather take the ball and go home because they don’t think they’ve recieved enough praise for bringing it, and wanting to charge everyone just to look at it.

    It’s not a great metaphor, but honestly dealing with companies and governments feels a lot like dealing with children you aren’t allowed to discipline or even talk sternly to because their parents have forbidden you from interfering.

      • ladicius@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9 hours

        You mean 40 years of delay for the destruction of our biosphere?

        It’s call that a win.

        • ozymandias117@lemmy.worldEnglish
          9 hours

          40 years of burning far more coal than necessary due to inefficient engines

          Whether the overall effect was positive or negative with respect to the biome, no clue

          • jdr@lemmy.mlEnglish
            7 hours

            Yes, but also induced demand. More efficient engines means less coal per task, but more tasks, maybe so many more that total coal use increases.

            • ozymandias117@lemmy.worldEnglish
              7 hours

              That’s why I said we don’t know the overall effect on the biome due to less efficient engines

              With how quickly we industrialized, my intuition is we were mining and burning it as fast as possible, but maybe more efficient engines could have let us mine and burn even more

    • Croquette@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      8 hours

      Let’s not forget that mega corpos benefit heavily from government subsidized R&D in universities, insert themselves within the R&D and claim innovation as their own.

      Tech is built on FOSS and private corporations act like they invented butter.

  • JensSpahnpasta@feddit.orgEnglish
    16 hours

    When companies are not able to produce enough to satisfy demand and are actively stopping selling to certain sectors and harming them, they should lose their patents. RAM companies are actively harming all of us by selling their products to the AI companies and leaving us all without RAM, so we should encourage alternatives.

    • ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶@lemmy.nzEnglish
      16 hours

      So patents are stopping the whole market competition thing, like what how capitalism is supposed to work and all that.

      • Amju Wolf@pawb.socialEnglish
        15 hours

        There should be a ceiling with patents, where if you make 10x back of what it cost your r&d (or whatever 5x of your yearly revenue), the patent should just be considered expired no matter how much time passed.

        It should never be an infinite source of money.

        • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
          11 hours

          Seems like a good idea, but would probably just result in Hollywood accounting so that they never actually make any profit on paper.

        • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          10 hours

          Patents in the US only last 20 years on stuff like this, the problem is that lawyers are crafty. So they will patent the formula and then 20 years later the delivery method or something like that. Thus preventing generics for longer than they should be able to.

      • RejZoR@lemmy.mlEnglish
        16 hours

        Only way how capitalism works is that the rich are just becoming the richer by exploiting the poor(er).

    • ryper@lemmy.caEnglish
      13 hours

      OK, but the leak in the article seems to have been in 2016 when conditions were very different.

  • mannycalavera@feddit.ukEnglish
    16 hours

    US frontier AI companies steal petabytes of copyrighted material.

    Oh shucks 😂

  • wedge@multiverse.soulism.netEnglish
    14 hours

    Guessing they won’t get much in the way of public sympathy given they’re bending consumers over the barrel. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

  • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyzEnglish
    16 hours

    Oh no! RAM prices might go down! Won’t somebody think of the poor shareholders?

    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14 hours

      We need to stop them from stealing 1 corporations IP, so tech corporations can continue making monopoly money off the entire human species stolen IP!

  • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zipEnglish
    16 hours

    Proving all this in court could give Samsung a powerful weapon moving forward. Legal experts believe the company might take sworn statements straight to the US International Trade Commission, a body with the authority to block foreign products from entering the country entirely.

    Which does not help because not every country will ban them and The other manufacturers will then have less demand and therefore have to reduce their prices in order to continue selling the same amount

    Edit: Doing so may slow the rate of the price decline in the US, but it will not stop it.

  • Xenny@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16 hours

    Oh nooooo China will have to…wait what will they have to do?