Liminal witch 🧙‍♀️ SarahFeb 24
@thomasfuchs I'm more afraid of the cascading effect that could make suppliers go bankrupt and stuck with hardware unusable in consumer electronics. So next 3-5 years may be optimistic.
Show threadWasabi the Black Cat 😼Feb 24

@xgebi @thomasfuchs

My concern though is the retooling. It may be impossible to get RAM for consumer / professional machines since what's being made for the data centers is not physically the same (and can not, therefore, be used in conventional hardware). There may simply be no RAM available for general use.

Show threadbipolaronFeb 24

@blackops @xgebi @thomasfuchs When the crash causes all that server RAM to suddenly became cheap, I feel like mainboard manufactuers would add an RDIMM slot pretty quick, no?

Not that any of this is good. Server RAM will be too expensive until these theoretical datacenters are canceled and have to sell their warehoused stock.

Show threadWasabi the Black Cat 😼

@bipolaron @xgebi @thomasfuchs

> feel like mainboard manufactuers would add an RDIMM slot pretty quick, no?

I am no hardware expert, but what you suggest seems possible. Or ..... geeks like us will just build out our own servers (fun for me with gigabit fiber to the house!).

The whole thing is silly. Orders for RAM that hasn't even been made for data centers that have not been built for companies yet to turn a dime in profit for a technology many don't want.

Feb 24 at 11:22pmWeb
Show threadbipolaronFeb 24

@blackops @xgebi @thomasfuchs while using electricity that cannot be available and water that it shouldn't be legal for them to bid on.

Yeah, I have a hard time not just seeing this as RAM companies trying to do price fixing again and using phantom orders to get away with it.

Show threadnaamvalFeb 25
@blackops @bipolaron @xgebi @thomasfuchs It isn't possible to adjust the motherboard and add an 'RDIMM slot'. Consumer grade CPUs can't work with RDIMMs, only server CPUs can. And those will not fit consumer motherboards, they have different sockets.
Show threadbipolaronFeb 25

@naamval @blackops @xgebi @thomasfuchs that's very unfortunate, thanks for explaining.

I guess we'll see how creative people get, maybe programmers and website designers will be forced to use resources efficiently...