• woelkchen@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    [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/

    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.

    • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      I kept trying to hammer this on Lemmy, but no one listens :( Mods also seem uninterested in information hygiene.

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      18 hours ago

      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.

      ASUS plans to produce RAM amid shortage problems, hoping to ease the rising costs of laptops and gaming PCs.

      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.

      Reports say the company is preparing to manufacture DDR5 memory by 2026.

      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.

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      23 hours ago

      Or the Taiwanese one, since all these companies are based in Taiwan

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        16 hours ago

        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.

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          2 hours ago

          The language of the end-post should probably be in the language used in the info bar, yes. And this article is in English. What you implied is that if a story originally came from a non-English source then it’s automatically suspect.

          • woelkchen@lemmy.world
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            2 hours ago

            What you implied is that if a story originally came from a non-English source then it’s automatically suspect.

            No, I didn’t. Learn to read. I stressed the regurgitation of a regurgitation of a regurgitation as a “source”.