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  "title": "Doesn't this look like NVIDIA is price fixing?",
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1w3pig8/doesnt_this_look_like_nvidia_is_price_fixing/",
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  "upload_date": "20260831",
  "published_at": "2026-08-31T20:14:30+00:00",
  "transcript": "According to this article Samsung has locked up the 70% of it's future ram production in contracts to companies like Microsoft, Google, and Nvidia. Everyone knows this is driving the ram price increases, but what I didn't know is Nvidia is locked in at 1/5th the current spot price. \n\nWhat others pay $2,100 for Nvidia pays $300-$500 for, until 2031. Yet they are increasing the price of their cards and justifying it as if they were paying the spot price for ram.\n\n\n\n[https://gagadget.com/en/723983-samsung-locked-up-70-of-its-ai-memory-for-microsoft-google-and-nvidia-through-2031/](https://gagadget.com/en/723983-samsung-locked-up-70-of-its-ai-memory-for-microsoft-google-and-nvidia-through-2031/)\n\n\n\n--- Top Comments ---\n\n\n[137 upvotes] Price fixing would mean there’s collusion.  If nvidia chooses to charge what they charge bc supply and demand will allow it, then they are free to do so.  \n\n[93 upvotes] None of this is price fixing. Price fixing would be “Hey AMD, Jensen here, let’s make a deal to increase prices by 20% at the same time”\n\n“I bought up the whole supply of a hotly demanded thing” might be a dick move but is very very far from fixing. It could be price gouging, but thats also not illegal except in very specific circumstances - for example daily necessities in a disaster. \n\nBut GPUs aren’t exactly toilet paper and dried beans. \n\n[63 upvotes] is supply and demand price fixing\n\n[54 upvotes] How exactly is that price fixing?",
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