> Enterprise customers pay more and buy in bulk. Uh, isn't that normally a contradiction? bulk is cheaper(???)
The products they buy command a premium. Consumers are generally more price-conscious.
Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business
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#102Uh shite. That's the goto for ssds with capacitors on, such that when the power dies they're able to leave things in a reasonable state. All the samsung ones I've tried have died within a year. Fast until they died I suppose. Any recommendations for nvme in a post-micron world?
Use a UPS?
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#103When richer people than you want things, those things can become unavailable to you (or at least less available). I really hope this bubble pops, all these investors lose their shirts, and prices come down to something reasonable.
This mostly means richer people have too much money if they can do that.
What's next, a new tech allowing you to turn food into money at a rate nobody can afford to eat anymore?
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#104Wow. They're not selling off the business, they're totally exiting it. This is a big loss. Crucial offered a supply chain direct from Micron. Most other consumer DRAM sources pass through middlemen, where fake parts and re-labeled rejects can be inserted.
There is KLEVV, the outlet of SK Hynix. They are crass! https://www.klevv.com/ken/main And don't forget about https://www.nanya.com/en/ While I never had a problem with https://semiconductor.samsung.com/dram/module/ , I think they will be rare/more expensive now, or 'soonish'. For chinese CXMT and YMTC there is https://www.biwintech.com/ We live in interesting times! (Cackling madly...)
huh, that explains why they always seem to sell the best 6000CL30 RAM.
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#105I feel like the "democratization of technology" is on the back slide. For the longest time, we had more and more access to high end technology at very reasonable price points. Now it feels like if you're not Facebook, Google, OpenAI, etc. etc. computation isn't for you. I hope this is just a blip, but I think there is a trend over the past few years.
I also hope its just a blip, but I don't actually think it is.
The democratization of technology was something that had the power to break down class barriers. Anyone could go get cheap, off the shelf hardware, a book, and write useful software & sell it. It became a way to take back the means of production.
Computing being accessible and affordable for everyone = working class power.
That is why its backsliding. Those in power want the opposite, they want to keep control. So we don't get to have open devices, we get pushed to thin clients & locked boot loaders, and we lose access to hardware as it increasingly only gets sold B2B (or if they do still sell to consumers, they just raise prices until most are priced out).
When the wealthy want something, that something becomes unavailable to everyone else.
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#106Re: Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business
#107Wow. They're not selling off the business, they're totally exiting it. This is a big loss. Crucial offered a supply chain direct from Micron. Most other consumer DRAM sources pass through middlemen, where fake parts and re-labeled rejects can be inserted.
There is KLEVV, the outlet of SK Hynix. They are crass! https://www.klevv.com/ken/main And don't forget about https://www.nanya.com/en/ While I never had a problem with https://semiconductor.samsung.com/dram/module/ , I think they will be rare/more expensive now, or 'soonish'. For chinese CXMT and YMTC there is https://www.biwintech.com/ We live in interesting times! (Cackling madly...)
> KLEVV
Just looked at standard desktop: still no 64GB 5600MT/s modules. CUDIMMs are missing 32GB.
> And don't forget about Nanya
BTW, what is the status of Elpida now?
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#108I'm half joking but if this AI boom continues we're going to see Nvidia exit from consumer GPU business. But Jensen Huang will never do that to us... (I hope)
They will constrain supply before exiting. It's just not smart exiting, you can stop developing and it will be a trickle, also will work as insurance in case AI flops.
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#109I'm half joking but if this AI boom continues we're going to see Nvidia exit from consumer GPU business. But Jensen Huang will never do that to us... (I hope)
Might almost be a good thing, if it means abandoning overhyped/underperforming high-end game rendering tech, and taking things in a different direction. The push for 4K with raytracing hasn't been a good thing, as it's pushed hardware costs way up and led to the attempts to fake it with AI upscaling and 'fake frames'. And even before that, the increased reliance on temporal antialiasing was becoming problematic. The…
DLSS Transformer models are pretty good. Framegen can be useful but has niche applications dure to latency increase and artifacts. Global illumination can be amazing but also pretty niche as it's very expensive and comes with artifacts.
Biggest flop is UE5 and it's lumen/nanite. Reallly everything would be fine if not that crap.
And yeah, our hardware is not capable of proper raytracing at the moment.
Re: Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business
#110I'm half joking but if this AI boom continues we're going to see Nvidia exit from consumer GPU business. But Jensen Huang will never do that to us... (I hope)
They will constrain supply before exiting. It's just not smart exiting, you can stop developing and it will be a trickle, also will work as insurance in case AI flops.
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