This doesn’t have anything to do with rare earth metals.
There is a large memory shortage. That’s created by the limited factory infrastructure required to manufacture it relative to recently-greatly-increased demand for memory; if there was more of that infrastructure, we could create more. This is more-severely impacting DDR5 memory; current processors can only use DDR5 memory.
There’s a certain amount of DDR4 out there that can be pulled out of older computers, but without older processors, it can’t be used, because current AMD processors can’t use DDR4 memory. They’re talking — maybe not very seriously — about restarting production of their older processors that can use it.
This doesn’t have anything to do with rare earth metals.
There is a large memory shortage. That’s created by the limited factory infrastructure required to manufacture it relative to recently-greatly-increased demand for memory; if there was more of that infrastructure, we could create more. This is more-severely impacting DDR5 memory; current processors can only use DDR5 memory.
There’s a certain amount of DDR4 out there that can be pulled out of older computers, but without older processors, it can’t be used, because current AMD processors can’t use DDR4 memory. They’re talking — maybe not very seriously — about restarting production of their older processors that can use it.