Strongly reminds me of the Beer Game: <a href="https://readingraphics.com/understanding-systems-thinking-the-beer-game/" rel="nofollow">https://readingraphics.com/understanding-systems-thinking-th...</a><p>Which is a game from MIT about how placing orders in a large system has unintended consequences.
Guess that plan to "organically" reduce production[0] and try to gain market share didn't work out so well.<p>[0]: <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/samsung-electronics-q4-profit-falls-235958812.html" rel="nofollow">https://finance.yahoo.com/news/samsung-electronics-q4-profit...</a>
>>"Samsung faces a double whammy of DRAM and NAND [memory chips] losing money and needing to update the process technology their [factories] use due to falling behind over the last couple of years,"<p>That seems like the money quote. The problem isn't the market, it is that Samsung technology is lagging, and they'll be cutting production while they update their fabs for next gen. Am I missing something?