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What old datacenter / AI hardware could end up in desktop PC's? (lemmy.world)
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With AI seeming to consume all resources for hardware, I’m wondering what parts of those current systems we could see trickling down into componentry for desktop PC’s as they get outdated for AI tasks.

I know most of this hardware is pretty specific and integrated, but I do wonder if an eventual workaround to these hardware shortages are through recycling and repurposing of the very systems causing the shortage. We have seen things like dram, flash, and even motherboard chipsets be pulled from server equipment and find its way into suspiciously cheap hardware on eBay and AliExpress, so how much of the current crop of hardware will turn up there in the future?

How much of that hardware could even be useful to us? Will nvidia repo old systems and shoot them into the sun to keep it out of the hands of gamers? Perhaps only time will tell

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[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

I sadly believe you are right, there is probably a clause in the contract between manufacturers and AI companies stating that the the chips can't be used outside of their intended purpose.

I envision a possible similar situation as with HDDs after the Tsunami, if AI companies goes bust after chips has been manufacturerd, who will use them?

They are made for specs used in AI data centers, that doesn't mean that they are good for general purpose.

I could see the stocks being sold for cheap to low cost memory module manufacturers, producing some weird and possibly failure prone memory modules.