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After RAM and SSDs, PSUs and CPU coolers are next in line for price hikes
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this post was submitted on 12 Jan 2026
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The machinery. Takes years to make and has to be maintained and only had a certain output. It's been this way for 100s of years.
And the market waves means that companies don't want to buy machines so they can't use them once the price goes back down.
Yeah, but these are not exactly complex parts, especially compared to RAM/etc. RAM fabrication is orders of magnitude more difficult than the parts we're looking at here.
I'm not saying it's something someone could get going tomorrow, but beyond the PCB for the PSU everything else is fairly standard and mostly interchangeable. People have made PSUs in their basements. And, for CPU coolers, it's effectively a piece of metal with a fan attached. If we've lost the capability to machine more aluminum and copper I feel like our problems have evolved beyond computer hardware.
For any mass produced item the amount of factory machinery available is a very "notable constraint"