RAMpocalypse, Now With Lawyers

Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series.A class action lawsuit was filed in California on June 25th against Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron, the three companies that dominate global DRAM production. Counterpoint Research puts their Q1 2026 revenue share at Samsung 38%, SK Hynix 29%, and Micron 22% — roughly 90% combined. The core allegation: that they coordinated to slash conventional DDR3 and DDR4 supply while pivoting production toward High Bandwidth Memory, the stacked memory that AI datacenters are consuming at a scale that would have seemed fictional three years ago. As a result, consumer memory prices have risen something like 700% over four years. Consoles cost more. Laptops cost more. Phones cost more. Apple has already raised the price of its cheapest MacBook Pro by $400, to $1,999, citing memory and storage costs it could no longer absorb. Xbox raised prices. Valve announced that their Steam Machine pricing target was no longer viable. Corsair started putting…