Don't vendors as big as Apple lock in their prices and contracts years in advance?

Rumor has it that Samsung hit them with a 100% price increase on RAM and Apple took it without even trying to negotiate

bombcar 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If that rumor's true then Apple has a memory fab hidden somewhere that's going to be revealed soon.

	▲	throwaway85825 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Apple is likely a large enough consumer to fully utilize a fab.

extraduder_ire 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Floating 100% price increase, or did they lock that number in as a ceiling for some period of time?

xd1936 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Bringing their profit margins down from ludicrous to just absurdly high.