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Amber 
(aka kemona_halftau)
@link why is ram so expensive
@kemona_halftau either big tech AI or RAM manufacturers setting the whatever market conditions they want
Julia :v_bi::therian:@link @kemona_halftau it's ai- they're buying up the dim chips for use in GPUs to prevent competitors from starting up datacenters
Natanox 🇺🇦🇵🇸@julia @link @kemona_halftau More detailed: OpenAI bought 40% of the global supply for the next 12 months of *all* DRAM and even unfinished wafers and some older production machines. They simply want to prevent other AI companies from overtaking them at all cost, as there are zero news of them wanting to produce stuff.
This caused panic-orders of DRAM by every company, sorta like toilet paper in 2020.
Additionally spicy: DRAM manufacturers do not want to increase production for some reason.
john localhost@Natanox @julia @link @kemona_halftau if we had an actual functioning government right now, openAI would be punished for pretty blatant anti competitive practices, but our leaders are more preoccupied with sinking random boats on the coast of venezuela just in case they have drugs on them. hopefully another big tech company sues, let them fight