first ever annual loss, Samsung mobile division? 😬

the consuming AI appetite for #moreRAM and #morePower and #moreCapital
https://9to5google.com/2026/04/22/samsung-is-increasingly-worried-about-first-ever-mobile-division-loss-in-ram-crisis-report/

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Samsung is increasingly worried about first-ever mobile division loss in RAM crisis, report

As AI continues to eat up the market’s RAM output, smartphones are in crisis as costs continue to skyrocket. A...

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At 1st I thought that fishing for insights in my digital ocean would require #morecores, well a lot of cpu cores, then I thought what if I can avoid loading/unloading data from disk so #moreram, then it turns out that nvme in #raid0 are slow. Thus balanced approach worked best… I ran out of ram :<
Attempting to install #NetBSD on this 486.. gonna need some more work before that works I'm afraid.

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#retrocomputing #moreram