Comment on When the AI bubble bursts..
SolidShake@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It is not compatible with desktop PC. It is a different manufactured kind of ram. The increase price is from companies flooding in high amounts of large orders. So consumer ram for PCs is getting backlogged so to say. Or just slowed down
GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Specifically, desktop RAM is slabs of silicon, placed into little packages, soldered onto circuit boards in DIMM form or similar, to be plugged into a motherboard slot for RAM.
The AI demand is for the silicon itself, using advanced packaging techniques to put them on the same package as the complex GPUs with very high bandwidth. So these same pieces of silicon are not even being put into DIMMs, so that if they fall out of use they’ll be pretty much intertwined with chips in form factors that a consumer can’t easily make use of.
There’s not really an easy way to bring that memory back into the consumer market, even after the AI bubble bursts.