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I'm not much of a conspirationist, but this memory "shortage" doesn't add up for me; it's like AI companies went from buying 10 memories as usual to 1000000, all of a sudden! It's too fast, and sus.
it's like AI companies went from buying 10 memories as usual to 1000000,
I mean, they basically did. OpenAI announced a few months ago that they reached deals to buy 900,000 wafers of DRAM per month, representing 40% of global production capacity. For a single company. There are several other companies competing at those scales, too.
All I can do is pray that my current RAM survives long enough for this stupid AI bubble to burst, like with the Crypto-Bro GPUs.
But it is kind of horrifying how easily consumers have been priced out of the RAM market - at least for newer stuff anyways
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This has got to be some sort of psyop
OpenAI bought 40% of the world's DRAM.
They bought them as whole wafers (not finished chips!) from SK Hynix and Samsung.
Then they put them in a warehouse
All of that is confirmed, btw. The part below is my speculation:
To me, that reads as if they're using VC money to drive up RAM prices, hoping that their competitors (who are catching up) can't buy more RAM.
It's so anticompetitive it's unbelievable. And of course, normal buyers are the most fucked over.
I both fear and can't wait for the ai pop. Please come sooner rather than later.
I am really, really glad I replaced my PC's a year ago.
This is insane. I'm kinda sorta rooting for the crash now. These unregulated billionaires are ruining all the things.
I had to look it up. The RAM I bought 12 months ago for $99 is now $350. This is insane.
I just installed a 4TB nvme Crucial SSD in my new build solely to put games on.
I'm sure they will come crawling back to consumers after the AI bubble bursts.
AI, along with crypto, is getting to the point where even oil executives are like "dudes, the planet..."
Right after Windows 10 stopped being supported, rendering a lot of computers "obsolete".
/yes I know about Linux
Business don't care about consumers because nowadays business sell to other business
Capitalism strikes again.
Fuck AI.
Guess when people ask me what ram do I need for X device I won’t be telling them to use crucial anymore to figure it out.
Fuck....
First it was GPUs, and now it's RAM.
This seriously sucks. Maybe I'll have to stick with my mom's laptop for a little while longer if prices are going to be impacted (which I having a feeling they probably will be unless they already are).
They told us us to buy computers in 2024 in case this happens. Here we are.
