The biggest advantage is that the older technology can also produced by Chinese manufacturers like CXMT. They're ramping up production to claim a sizeable portion of the market.
They are already able to produce state-of-the-art DRAM, not only old DDR4 or slower DDR5, but they have difficulties to ramp up production for such DRAM, for not being able to buy adequate equipment due to the US "sanctions".
They are already able to produce state-of-the-art DRAM, not only old DDR4 or slower DDR5, but they have difficulties to ramp up production for such DRAM, for not being able to buy adequate equipment due to the US "sanctions".