Alibaba has made 470,000 AI chips, admits they’re inferior and may always be

: Sees optimizing its entire cloud around homebrew silicon as the way to compete

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Think the RAM Crisis Is Bad Now? It Just Keeps Getting Worse

https://gizmodo.com/think-the-ram-crisis-is-bad-now-it-just-keeps-getting-worse-2000735579

> Currently, 50% of SK Hynix and Samsung memory output is in the form of HBM slated for AI data centers.
#RAMShortage

Think the RAM Crisis Is Bad Now? It Just Keeps Getting Worse

With relief now not expected until 2030, PCs and smartphones will just keep getting more expensive.

Gizmodo
The "RAMpocalyse" Forces Retroid To Temporarily Discontinue One Handheld And Hike The Price Of Another

More "good" news thanks to the AI craze

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Global RAM price surge is causing significant pressure on Indian smartphone volumes. Average selling prices (ASP) in India have increased by 8% since September. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/technology/global-ram-price-surge-india-smartphone-shipments-clsa-report-qmjgmwvv?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #RAMPrice #RAMShortage #RAM #Smartphone #TechNews
The Macbook Neo launch points to the direction of devices with less than the 16 GB "default" RAM as the new standard and developers should have them in mind. Especially web app developers.
#ramshortage #macbookneo

🚀 AI data centers are on track to gobble up 70% of the world’s RAM by 2026, according to the WSJ. The surge in generative AI workloads is straining memory chips, squeezing the tech supply chain and even echoing the gaming industry’s past crunch. What does this mean for open‑source projects and hardware innovation? Dive in for the full analysis. #AIDataCenters #RAMShortage #GenerativeAI #MemoryChips

🔗 https://aidailypost.com/news/ai-data-centers-projected-use-70-global-ram-by-2026-wsj-reports

Don't worry, Valve still plans to launch the Steam Machine "this year" https://arstechni.ca/VZ4a #steammachine #ramshortage #hardware #Gaming #delay #Steam #Valve
Don't worry, Valve still plans to launch the Steam Machine "this year"

What part of "this year," exactly, is still anyone's guess.

Ars Technica

@michaelrussell

This a HUGE WARNING its not just a temporary price hike, billionaires have bought materials needed to make ram, to cut supply of chips, and hard drives, TO CORNER THE MARKET and destroy personal computing not owned by them.

They control phones, you control PCs.

There are a quarter BILLION laptops that are prevented from using windows, no upgrades, no security, no fixes.

Get a laptop, several laptops, install linux

#linux #ramprices #ram #ramshortage #billionaires

Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage

Announcements this week were mostly business as usual, but Apple isn't immune.

Ars Technica
Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage https://arstechni.ca/863B #Applesilicon #ramshortage #MacStudio #m3ultra #Apple #apple #m4max #Tech
Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage

Announcements this week were mostly business as usual, but Apple isn't immune.

Ars Technica