As if the chip supply situation wasn’t bad enough already, there could be a new twist in the tale, as Samsung – one of the world’s largest memory and NAND manufacturers – could soon be facing factory shutdowns, reducing global production capacity and driving up prices. A threatened strike involving over 43,000 workers in Korea would see over half the company’s semiconductor production workforce taken out of action, in turn dropping global production of memory and NAND by 3-4%. While that may not sound like a lot, the current pressure on chip manufacturing from the boom in demand for AI is already sky high and has caused RAM prices to quadruple and SSD prices to double. As such, even a slight drop in Samsung’s production could send prices for the best gaming RAM in the wrong direction again.

 Over 43,000 workers on Samsung’s chip production facilities could be walking out for 18 days, if threatened strikes go ahead this week.  PCGamesN