RAM == LOBSTERS???? OH CRAP!

igor_kavinski said:

We are OFFICIALLY screwed!
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Oh wow holy cow

“The AI-driven growth in the data center has led to a surge in demand for memory and storage. Micron has made the difficult decision to exit the Crucial consumer business in order to improve supply and support for our larger, strategic customers in faster-growing segments,”

You know what. F*ck AI. F*ck it right in it's d*mn AI hole.

I thought the same thing about crypto mining too...

Samsung and Hynix are all that's left?
 
Brian_B said:
Samsung and Hynix are all that's left?
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How long before they follow suit? You know the Koreans literally worship America and want to BE America.

Next thing we know, the entire DIY community is depending on shady chinese RAM sticks. This is gonna kill the DIY industry. Without RAM, system builders, even shops will close.

I can't help thinking about M$'s part in this conspiracy. Think about it. They are mostly a cloud services company now. What more do they want than users having a dumb terminal with very little RAM that they use to connect to their cloud instances and everyone gets charged hourly for the privilege of using business software or compute power or gaming via streaming? This is looking like a concerted effort to take power away from OUR hands and into the hands of big corporations.
 

The anti-AI thread

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Well, at least the numbers don't compute. Looking forward to OpenAI burning down to the ground.

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His signature attempts to answer the question "Why your RAM is expensive?": https://www.overclock.net/members/blameless.56560/

Chronically unpunished corruption, collusion, and patent trolling...meets AI. Anti-competitive, taxpayer subsidized, oligopolies, that have freely flouted anti-trust law for decades, rake in record profits and screw-over consumers. All while giving taxpayer subsidized hyperscalers priority for hardware to train and operate LLMs for largely unprofitable for-profit-but-also-taxpayer-subsidized AI corporations.
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spectrum.ieee.org

Price Fixing in the Memory Market

The unfolding tale of an ineffective DRAM conspiracy
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web.archive.org

Samsung, Hynix, Micron sued for DRAM price fixing that could have raised PC prices

Record high prices for DRAM may have a cascading effect on computers, which have multiple parts that use DRAM.
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www.cambridge.org

Micron versus UMC and Fujian Jinhua (Case Study 6.2) - A Casebook on Chinese Outbound Investment

A Casebook on Chinese Outbound Investment - March 2025
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news.skhynix.com

SK hynix Announces Q3 2025 Financial Results

SK hynix has announced record quarterly earnings in Q3 2025 following strong demand for AI memory products including HBM and high-performance server products.
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www.pcgamer.com

Sky-high DRAM prices are set to stick around beyond 2028 as Samsung and SK Hynix opt to 'minimize the risk' memory of oversupply'

More boom. Less bust.
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news.bloombergtax.com

OpenAI’s Tax Subsidy Efforts Amount to Silicon Valley Socialism

Opinion: OpenAI’s push to expand the CHIPS Act tax credit into a broad artificial intelligence infrastructure subsidy shows how the government, and by extension taxpayers, are already underwriting the AI boom.
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The price of a 5090 is through the roof as well. So not sure if you're making a statement to "bash" on RAM prices by "what can you buy with the cost of a DDR5 kit" when you can buy a used car for the price of a 5090.
 
www.sciencedaily.com

An ordinary laptop solved a problem thought to require a quantum computer

A quantum problem once described as impossible for classical computers has now been solved using relatively modest hardware. Researchers used tensor networks to compress the overwhelming wave function created by hundreds of entangled qubits, allowing some calculations to run on a laptop. Their...
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Advancements like that make me hopeful that the AI bubble will pop one way or the other. Someone somewhere will happen upon a novel solution to making AI models run faster on normal computers with normal amount of RAM and suddenly all the data centers will be like, oh no! Now nobody will need us! And the RAM market will crash instantly.
 
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