From the opposite angle, there's apparently evidence that the RAM companies themselves are price fixing: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/samsung-sk-hynix-...
The existence of a lawsuit is not evidence.
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What if the RAM/GPU shortage is deliberate?
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Re: What if the RAM/GPU shortage is deliberate?
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
The existence of a lawsuit is not evidence.
That's false. It's evidence, but it isn't conclusive. Someone thought that the law suit was worth filing, and that could be because the law suit has a chance of succeeding. It could also be some other reason, and it could also fail even if completely good faith -- this is why the evidence is non-conclusive.
By your logic, counter-lawsuits and especially the SLAPP suits are also evidence.
Re: What if the RAM/GPU shortage is deliberate?
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's false. It's evidence, but it isn't conclusive. Someone thought that the law suit was worth filing, and that could be because the law suit has a chance of succeeding. It could also be some other reason, and it could also fail even if completely good faith -- this is why the evidence is non-conclusive.
By your logic, counter-lawsuits and especially the SLAPP suits are also evidence.
Still, RAM manufacturers have a long history of price fixing.
Re: What if the RAM/GPU shortage is deliberate?
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
The existence of a lawsuit is not evidence.
That's false. It's evidence, but it isn't conclusive. Someone thought that the law suit was worth filing, and that could be because the law suit has a chance of succeeding. It could also be some other reason, and it could also fail even if completely good faith -- this is why the evidence is non-conclusive.
> Someone thought that the law suit was worth filing
No, someone thought that they could win a lawsuit.
We live in a highly litigious society. This happens all the time.
It's not _evidence_, it's _suspicion_, and it's asking it to be reviewed in a court of law.
Re: What if the RAM/GPU shortage is deliberate?
#25You are aware that a 1 trillion parameter model won’t run on any quantity of consumer hardware, even heavily quantized… you need a data center for that. And that is not even to talk of the Kimi K3 model which is in the ballpark of 3 trillion
You don’t need a datacenter. 1T model requires 1T of RAM. Not easy to come by today in a compact factor but nowhere near the datacenter.
> 1T model requires 1T of RAM
assuming 8 bits per weight, but 4bits is commonly used once you get to that scale.