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While this is a good initiative from South Korea (recycled older devices are often good enough for basic web usage and media consumption), a much better initiative would be to investigate Samsung and SK Hynix, who are basically colluding to maintain tight supply by refusing to build more capacity.
They refuse to build capacity because they know that when the AI bubble pops, they will have a glut and lose a lot of money. It's ultimately a lack of confidence in the current AI boom.
And even better would be to stop being lazy imbeciles and start creating new companies/factories. No, you can't expect 2-3 companies in the whole world to maintain adequate supplies and prices.
China's coming to eat your lunch triopoly, better make what you can before ~2028 (likely earlier for DDR4). They're going at it hard, and all the way back up the supply chain.
'potentially unlawful activity' like constraining supply or letting Scam Altman corner the wafer market without any way to actually use it. South Korea could just rule that an illegal (anti-competitive) contract and the RAM / SSD crisis would likely be over, or at least significantly mitigated.