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Comment Holy Shit! Really???? (Score 1) 23

This just in, a report published by a group of people who would be materially harmed by losing business to the EU building its own technical capacity declared it would be costly and unfeasible to ever abandon them.

Up next after the commercial break, we report on how water is wet and grass grows.

Comment yes there's a cost (Score 4, Interesting) 24

Yes there's a cost to continue doing business with companies that are increasingly greedy based in a country that is increasingly hostile and an existential threat. I have never on my life seen such brash and naked lust coming from a country that was previously a beacon, a country that built alliances that benefitted more than just themselves. Sad that this has all been destroyed. Hard times ahead for everyone. Sad also because it's so senseless.

Submission + - Pine64 halts all Linux hardware manufacturing through at least mid-2027 (tomshardware.com)

AmiMoJo writes: Pine64 has stopped producing Linux devices entirely, announcing this week on its official Telegram news channel that "there isn't [sic] any plans to continue producing more Linux devices in the near future" because of the ongoing DRAM and eMMC shortage. The stoppage covers the company's full lineup of Arm and RISC-V single-board computers, the PinePhone family, the PineTab2 tablet, and the PineNote e-reader, with remaining PineNote and PineTab2 stock estimated to last around three months.

The AI-driven memory crunch has raised prices on everything from DDR5 kits — which have sold on eBay for more than $2,000 — to prebuilt PCs from Dell, CyberPowerPC, and Maingear. Unfortunately, Pine64 buys the single worst-supplied part in the entire NAND market. TrendForce reported in April that the eMMC/UFS segment faces the tightest supply gap of any NAND category, because its production capacity overlaps with far higher-margin enterprise SSDs, making it the last in line for supplier allocation.

Phison CEO Khein-Seng Pua said in February that 8GB eMMC modules had risen from $1.50 to $20 in a year, a 13-fold increase, and warned the shortage could shut down entire consumer electronics companies in 2026. Pine64 hasn't shut down, but a whole product category has, and it's the first named vendor to kill a lineup outright instead of repricing it.

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