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ELI5: Why has there been a shortage of NAND chips in the last two years?
gpt
This subject is controversial. Companies are being sued over RAM pricing... they’re accused of either mis-representing the amount available or intentionally failing to produce as much as people want, to keep prices high.

NAND supply could be affected by similar factors, or it could be technical and market factors. There’s continuing/growing demand for cheap, power efficient storage but the newest 3D NAND tech has been tricky to produce. Meanwhile, phones are being sold with a larger amount of NAND storage. At the same time, desktop/laptop computers are moving away from spinning HDDs for storage, increasing NAND flash use for those devices. This holds true even when storage sizes aren’t increasing.