Building a custom-designed ASIC is much easier than producing state of the art memory chips.
There's a reason why Micron and Nvidia are the crown jewels of American technology right now and for the foreseeable future.
There's a reason why Micron and Nvidia are the crown jewels of American technology right now and for the foreseeable future.
To give some context, Intel started making DRAM, I think they were actually the company that came up with modern memory techniques. They exited the market and pursued a more lucrative moat with CPUs.