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First Western Digital, now Sony: The tech giant suspends SD card sales

https://mashable.com/article/sony-sd-card-sales-suspended-memory-shortage
26•_tk_•1h ago

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il•1h ago
Why isn't production scaling to meet demand? Shouldn't the market address this.
sosborn•1h ago
Building production facilities isn't like flipping a switch.
helterskelter•1h ago
Building these factories goes way beyond "nontrivial". We may see a few come online in a couple of years though, but time will tell if the extra capacity alleviates the crunch.
smallerize•1h ago
A chip fab costs a billion dollars to build.
analognoise•1h ago
Modern cutting edge ones, yes. Not all fabs, by a long shot.
Imustaskforhelp•34m ago
Shouldn't countries wanting sovereign infrastructure create subsidies for creation of factories/job creation and also selling first/primarily within the region if it might cost on just a few million dollars (preferably a new competitor)

I think one flaw in my thinking could be that there might be a lack of experience within the people for something like this, do you consider it to be a factor and would it be difficult to hire people relevant to such fab?

pfortuny•45m ago
It is the law of inertia, it applies to many more situations than we think. Markets is one of the, especially large-scale ones.
cyanydeez•41m ago
Why isn't magic just doing the magic things the capitalists always tell us is magic?
FpUser•36m ago
Because it operates exactly as a drug dealer. It gives you first shot for free (reasonable opportunity to move up) and after you are hooked it makes sure that it extracts all your money (subscription and inability to own anything).
littlecranky67•35m ago
Because the manufacturers of storage (and RAM) consider it to be an AI bubble, too. The surge in demand is a short burst, not a sustained one. Hence it makes no sense to throw a whole lot of ressources into scaling up production, when the demand won't be there anymore in 1-2 years when the factories will be ready.
eschneider•27m ago
Because when the AI customers explode N months down the line, you don't want to be on the hook for a new factory.
miki123211•26m ago
Because:

1. Factories take time to build.

2. Building factories requires capital to be invested now.

3. The return-on-capital will only be obtained in the next n years.

4. But if demand goes down, we'll have much more supply than demand, leading to a cutthroat price competition, which could prevent the factory costs from ever being recouped.

downrightmike•17m ago
Free markets, yes
red_admiral•46m ago
Guess I'll find the old ones at the back of my cupboard for the time being ... oh wait. A 16MB SD card. Those were the days.
jbverschoor•9m ago
Earlier today I discovered the existence of 2TB microsd cards
tombert•31m ago
I have a giant storage RAID for my home server, with a bunch of 16TB drives. I bought each of the drives used about three years ago, and they cost about $120 each. They have been working fine until last night.

One of them appears to be broken [1]. No big deal, this is what RAIDs are for, I go and try to find one and now they're going anywhere between 2-4x that price, for a used one! It's not going to bankrupt me (and having a home server is a privilege in the first place, that's not lost on me), but I really hope that the others survive, at least until this storage crunch is over. If it ever does end...sigh.

I guess I didn't realize that even relatively slow storage like spinner drives was going to be affected too.

[1] I think, I am really hoping it's just a bad connection or something but I haven't fully diagnosed it yet.

bluerooibos•16m ago
Three years seems ridiculously low lifetime - I'd hope that was covered by warranty.
tombert•12m ago
As I said, they were used, so I knew that a drive breaking was kind of an inevitability. As far as I'm aware there's no warranty, I certainly didn't pay for an extended one.

Good news though, since writing this I just started playing with dmesg and smartctl, it actually might be something with the SATA connector. At least those are still pretty cheap.

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