There’s also talk of possible cooperation with CMXT, a Chinese company that recently introduced DDR5 and LPDDR5X chips. But CMXT faces its own hurdles, including strict import rules and limited production capacity.
ASUS realizes there’s a shit ton of money to be made on ram.
[Update - 12/26/2025] - Taiwanese outlet, CNA, has received a statement from ASUS regarding the DRAM rumor and stated that it currently has no plans to invest in a memory wafer fab.
https://wccftech.com/asus-enter-dram-market-next-year-to-tackle-memory-shortages-rumor/
Lesson hopefully learned: Don’t link to the regurgitation of a regurgitation of a regurgitation of a Persian language article. At the very least go back the first English version of the article chain.
I kept trying to hammer this on Lemmy, but no one listens :( Mods also seem uninterested in information hygiene.
Asus won’t be producing shit. They’ll be slapping their name on some kits already being produced by another company.
What Gskill, Kingston, Corsair, Mushkin,
Crucial, etc. do already. If any one of these appears or disappears, it makes zero difference to supply. The original manufacturers switching to HBM because Nvidia/OpenAI wanted them to (not to mention OpenAI doing a deal with Samsung and SK Hynix for 40% of earth’s entire supply) is the cause of this, and it won’t be solved by some Asus stickers being slapped on some RAM sticks that otherwise would’ve still been sold, just with a different sticker on the front.This article thinking that ASUS will plan, build, and operate a state of the art DRAM fab in a short timescale is absolute fantasy.
If they made DIMMs with CXMT chips, they wouldn’t need a fab (CXMT presumably has access to those). ASUS already has the PCB production and pick-and-place factories.
But isn’t the chip supply is already limited? It won’t really help with the shortage.
How hard can it possibly be, you just get those casings that go around the ram, and then fill them up with ram juice. They could even recycle old ram by topping them up again!
/s
That won’t help with the pricing, ASUS just tries to get a slice of the cake.
But who produces the RAM-producing machines?
(Yes, it’s gold rush time)
