Laptop-slinger Framework refunding customers who paid top dollar for RAM
The company expected the price it paid for LPCAMM2 would go up by a low-to-mid double digit percentage from Q2 to Q3. Instead the price it paid was more than double the cost of its previous shipment. They can also edit their orders to acquire more memory at the new, lower price.Framework is not alone in eating the cost of increased memory costs.
- ▪The company expected the price it paid for LPCAMM2 would go up by a low-to-mid double digit percentage from Q2 to Q3.
- ▪Instead the price it paid was more than double the cost of its previous shipment.
- ▪They can also edit their orders to acquire more memory at the new, lower price.Framework is not alone in eating the cost of increased memory costs.
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