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As AI gobbles up chips, prices for devices may rise

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Re: As AI gobbles up chips, prices for devices may rise

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Post by netbioserror »

Positive downstream effect: The way software is built will need to be rethought and improved to utilize efficiencies for stagnating hardware compute. Think of how staggering the step from the start of a console generation to the end used to be. Native-compiled languages have made bounding leaps that might be worth pursuing again.

Re: As AI gobbles up chips, prices for devices may rise

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Post by johnea »

kankerlijer wrote: post #3

Well thank th FSM that the article opens right up with buy now! No thanks, I'm kind of burnt out on mindless consumerism, I'll go pot some plants or something.

I didn't see any of that.

I highly recommend disabling javascript in your browser.

Yes, it makes many sites "look funny", or maybe you have to scroll past a bunch of screen sized "faceplant" "twitverse" and "instamonetize" icons, but, there are far fewer ads (like none).

And of course some sites won't work at all. That's OK too, I just don't read them. If it's a news article, its almost always available on another site that doesn't require javascript.

Re: As AI gobbles up chips, prices for devices may rise

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Post by CamperBob2 »

Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #7
johnea wrote: post #2

"May rise"? Prices are already through the roof... https://www.tomsguide.com/news/live/ram-price-crisis-updates

Asus is ramping up production of ram... So lets see if they might "save us"

Asus doesn't make RAM. That's the whole problem: there are plenty of RAM retail brands, but they are all just selling products that originate from only a couple of actual fabs.

Re: As AI gobbles up chips, prices for devices may rise

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Post by vittore »

I've been ruminating on this past two years, with life before AI most of the compute staying cheap and pretty much 90% idle , we are finally getting to the point of using all of this compute. We probably will find more algorithms to improve efficiency of all the matrix computations, and with AI bubble same thing will happen that happened with telecom bubble and all the fiber optic stuff that turned out to be drastically over provisioned. Fascinating times!

Re: As AI gobbles up chips, prices for devices may rise

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Post by nrp »

CamperBob2 wrote: post #8
Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Asus is ramping up production of ram... So lets see if they might "save us"

Asus doesn't make RAM. That's the whole problem: there are plenty of RAM retail brands, but they are all just selling products that originate from only a couple of actual fabs.

Three major ones: Micron, Samsung, SK Hynix

And a couple of smaller ones: CXMT (if you’re not afraid of the sanctions), Nanya, and a few others with older technology

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