Submitted 5 hours ago by vanadium@lemdro.id to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.xda-developers.com/dram-prices-spiking-dont-trust-industry-reasons/
For example, OpenAI’s new “Stargate” project reportedly signed deals with Samsung and SK Hynix for up to 900,000 wafers of DRAM per month to feed its AI clusters, which is an amount close to 40% of total global DRAM output if it’s ever met. That’s an absurd amount of DRAM.
Will these even be useful on the second hand market, or are these chips gonna be on specialized PCBs for these machines?
Will these ever be useful on the second hand market
Nope, not ever.
They will be disposed of (“recycled”), since that grants the largest asset depreciation tax break. The grand majority of all data center gear gets trashed instead of reused or repurposed through the second hand market.
Source: I used to work at a hardware recycling facility, where much of the perfectly good hardware was required to be shredded, down to the components, because of these stipulations. It’s such a waste.
Likely not. This is a spectacularly dumb move, the product isn’t that good and Samsung / SK Hynix are high if they think they they’ll get paid if the market so much as sneezes and things go sideways
I’ve avoided updating my computer for years over one overpriced component of another. GPU and now DRAM.
Same. And with my computer not being windows 11 compatible it gave me the push to get rid of my windows partition all together. The tech industry is very good at making their products as unappealing as possible.
Same. Built my box 10 years ago next summer and she’s still clinging to life. One day I’ll be able to upgrade… maybe.
Still working on my backlog of 10 year old games…
The reason why is greed. That’s the only reason for capitalism.
Just built a rig to give me enough raw power I move however I need yo when this all blows up. Went with a Ryzen 5000 series cpu and ddr4 ram and a godawful motherboard with an Intel B580 cpu. It’s cheap but I now have more options.
Too bad I couldn’t get the opnsense VM working properly so I’m stuck with keeping the firewalla running. But that may not matter as the Nazis want to kill the internet anyway. We may be forced to rely on wonky mixnets like reticulum.
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
cartel that has previously done cartel things continues to do more cartel things
more at 11