Looking forward to see their CEO’s picachu face when they ask their governments handouts to compete with Chinese RAM that has in between entered the market…
At least in the USA there’s a good chance they’ll get it too, despite The Don’s inability to say “China” without derision.
Me, on a 13yo laptop and a 5yo phone: don’t worry, we still own the internet.
GEEEEEE, what a coincidence, eh? Almost like these companies may be coordinating some sort of market shift for some reason.
What do you call that when a bunch of companies responsible for large swathes of market share of a particular good or service use the guise of unnatural market pressure to create conditions unnaturally beneficial to themselves and not consumers?
Cartel.
This sounds like they are joining the war on general-purpose computing, and not on our side. Fuck em.
that doesn’t seem to be the same thing, I skimmed most of the article, but that speech is about restricting what hardware can do , not making hardware unavailable to general people so that we become dependent on “cloud computing”
The reason I see the connection is that big dogs like Apple or Microsoft will be able to get RAM from those suppliers (or build it themselves like Samsung), and will be able to sell you walled-garden “computer appliances” which only run approved software. But you won’t be able to afford to build your own computer from parts yourself, and won’t be able to install whatever you want on it as a result.
Think about the power Microsoft has when they have every business document on earth and an AI that can summarize vast quantities of them on an ongoing basis.
They’re taking control of free markets, of political movements.
I am sure getting the gist of all the knowledge in the world will be very useful. They’ll have the general idea of the kind of things they may or may not need or not need to do to accomplish anything!
What’s crazy is that they aren’t just doing this because they make more money with AI. They’re doing this because these AI companies have basically pre-ordered a fuck ton of components that have not been manufactured yet to be put into computers that haven’t even been made yet for datacenters that are not even built yet all on an electrical grid that hasn’t caught up. As long as the manufacturers get paid they don’t really give a shit, but this is so unsustainable it would be hilarious if it weren’t so catastrophic for the rest of us. And as long as the line goes up as they all circle jerk their money around they’ll all be happy and can pretend the economy is good.
AI companies have basically pre-ordered a fuck ton of components that have not been manufactured yet to be put into computers that haven’t even been made yet for datacenters that are not even built yet all on an electrical grid that hasn’t caught up.
Beautiful. The very definition of a bubble.
Isnt some AI bro hoarding a fuckton of CPUs because there arent enough servers to put them into?
Hello depreciation!
Or would be if it wasn’t for all the market manipulation.
