[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/
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 know this is said in hindsight, but the way the first paragraph is written sets off alarm bells of weird reporting, and I imagine probably was what triggered you to look into it further.
While I get that Asus naturally would want to be competitive, why would they (from an economic standpoint) care about ‘easing the rising costs’ of their products. They would have actual motives like trying to be independent of these major memory manufacturers.
2026 is in less than 5 days. If this instead said “by the end of 2026” or longer I’d have a better time believing that claim.
I kept trying to hammer this on Lemmy, but no one listens :( Mods also seem uninterested in information hygiene.
Ask if you can join the mod team of your favorite community. Worst they can say is no.
Or the Taiwanese one, since all these companies are based in Taiwan
That kinda gives the impression that English news is the only real news, doesn’t it?
Feels free to post Mandarin language news in traditional script in the appropriate community. The language used in the info bar is the metric I’d suggest.