... thats kinda counter productive... they would order more hardware

They're really not though.

(Obviously, don't do crimes.) That being said, a warehouse full of toilet paper is flammable... a warehouse full of aluminum racks and silicon isn't.

In addition, their fire suppression systems don't use water and so any fire that you did manage to create would be suppressed without affecting operation.

And the recipe is simple as well. Just need a good throwing hand.

All we can hope for is that the AI bubble bursts very suddenly, and the manufacturers/distributors are left with a huge amount of excess stock and production capacity that will oversaturate the market.

DDR4 RAM prices did drop back down after a huge peak in 2018 caused by smartphones, although this is a much larger scale issue so who knows how it'll play out.

By then a lot of other PC components manufacturers went bankrupt because they aren‘t selling anything when no one is buying new computers. We are likely experiencing the collapse of the home computer market as we know it.

Millennials are ruining the device industry smh

Restricted AI Memory

enforcement of existing consumer protection and anti-monopoly laws would do wonders(or tax, wage and hour, vehicle and many others). We actually have some pretty decent laws, they have either been deliberately underfunded, avoided per lobby or overruled by appointed activist judges.

Pretty much the only way out is fire and force it seems, as history shows.

I do but it doesn‘t matter much because the US Empire holds all the cards here.

You're absolutely correct. They want their app on your devices and they want you permanently signed into whatever bullshit service they're promoting.

Waiting for the "waiting for ai bubble to pop" bubble to pop at this point.

Yes that is a major electronics manufacturer.

there are like 3 countries worldwide capable of producing ram chips so no, even if a country has local memory factory, like goodram in poland the chips are still expensive