$70 to $400: China Just Broke the DDR5 RAM Cartel
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#ddr #semiconductor #china DDR5 RAM prices went from $70 to $400 while Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron chased HBM for AI. Then CXMT, a Chinese DRAM maker founded in 2016, broke the cartel. For six years, every export control, every blocked EUV lithography machine, and every headline about Chinese semiconductors pointed at one target: advanced logic. Nobody was guarding the memory door. Commodity DDR5 never needed EUV in the first place — it needed deep ultraviolet lithography, multi-patterning discipline, and volume. While the world watched the frontier, Changxin Memory Technologies built the thing the market was actually screaming for. This is the full breakdown: how the AI memory boom drained your supply chain, why three companies with 80% gross margins left themselves open to a less advanced competitor, what CXMT actually put on the table at the China International Semiconductor Expo, and where the story genuinely stops — because their HBM yields tell a very different story than their
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