Memory-maker Micron has found a way to keep prices for its products sky-high for another five years, by signing 16 “strategic customer agreements” (SCAs) that include a floor price the company says comes with “a very robust gross margin for Micron, well above our peak quarterly margins in any past cycle.”
Micron CEO, president and chairman Sanjay Mehrotra explained the SCAs in prepared remarks delivered during the company’s Q3 earnings call. He explained that Micron has signed 16 SCAs, most of them covering 2026 to 2030, and that they involve a commitment to buy a certain quantity of product and pay for it in a pricing band that has a floor and a ceiling price. The floor price covers the historically high gross margins mentioned above, and the ceiling price means those who commit to an SCA are insulated if memory prices go even higher.
Hang on, I’m gonna add a suspicious new component onto a part that is incredibly expensive and heavily scrutinized specifically for speed and latency that will bit bash the I/o.
yeah you’d have to disguise it as part of another chip, and use lower latency parts and then sell it as higher latency…
Or you could just make a waifu gacha game that people install freely because, dude: anime tiddies! And it requires kernel level anticheat because you definitely don’t want people getting their waifus and husbandos for free.
I don’t know that any of that is or could be connected to spyware, but it seems like if I wanted to orchestrate some kind of hidden state sponsored spyware network, targeting the gooners that will voluntarily install software on their phones and computers would be a lot simpler than hiding shit in RAM.