I reckon this is best if only example of a stable large scale unregulated efficiency monopoly.
No. Producing memory cheaply needs volumne. Nothing that the open-hardware movement does changes the fact that you need scale to cheaply produce memory chips.
I'm also not sure whether you can produce memory chips without violating patents from those company so you need additional millions of capital for that.
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