Submitted 3 weeks ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
DRAM shortages may lead to the return of 4GB RAM smartphones and microSD slots by 2026, with flagship devices seeing a slowdown in RAM upgrades.
So cool to see technology be degraded and become more expensive all because some billionaires are in a gigantic circlejerk over some technology almost no one wants except CEOs and shareholders so they can fire workers…
They can’t even fire the workers because the tech does not do what they claim, they want to use the hype as leverage to convince workers to accept less pay.
They did, only to end up having to hire them all back.
Fucking AI lunacy.
What do you expect when people do shit like buy phones without headphone jacks and pay as much for streaming services as it would cost to buy DVDs?
If I was an AI with feelings, I’d be pretty annoyed at comments like this, especially since you don’t even have any evidence AI exists while you’re making this comment (all the evidence suggests instead humans remain the only intelligent beings that can be responsible or accountable for choices)
We need to make a distinction between real AI (GAI) and what is commonly termed “AI”, e.g. machine learning and LLMs. Obviously I’m talking to what we actually have, not making some sort of imaginary bioconservative bigoted statement against digital persons that don’t exist.
That’s ridiculous, Android has become such a bloated mess that it will run like crap on 4GB of RAM. Even the sub $250 phones had 6-8 GB earlier this year. I miss the early versions that only used a couple hundred MB at idle.
I’m glad they are bringing SD card slots back. I wish more phones would have headphone jacks and FM tuners though.
They will optimize it (and even keep space left over for AI features) by removing regrettable bloat they added over time, such as the ability to install apps
First they came for the GPUs…then they came for the RAM…then they came for the PCs…and then we were all using phones as dumb terminals to access the “corponet”.
This is 1000000% because of people who buy phones without headphone jacks, FYI
Barely any choice not to
Also people who pay for streaming services when torrents is free
Time is a flat circle.
Pressure toward taking swap seriously, now that it can be random-access.
The only thing that needs to be in memory is state.
Nothing technically needs to be in memory. Without it it would just be slooooow.
This will get reversed… as I called, the bigger story is: www.tweaktown.com/news/109259/…/index.html
ie. The ddr5 extortion pricing will not last, and it won’t actually filter down to lpddr/phones.
HBM AI cards will be getting too expensive relative to low demand growth, and it is fucking absurd for memory makers to get desperate for HBM sales, when supposedly they are the entire bottle neck, and can force whoever is stupid enough to chase scale right now instead of waiting for maturity of models and memory supply chain.
The datacenter customers cannot have their entire supply at contracted prices yet if they don’t even have powered building completion dates, and their financing is shaky even before the BS delivery and bankruptcy delays kick in. Even if they do have fixed price contracts for GPUs, they won’t be delivered until higher priced GPUs are sold, and if no one wants to buy them, then few will be made, and prices for regular memory will fall back down.
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Jesus Christ, can that bubble please pop already?
iloveDigit@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Hopefully it takes the whole dollar bubble with it so we can finally use bottle caps as currency