I‘m switching hobbies to gunpla. No one has managed to put DRAM in an airbrush to the best of my knowledge.
The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about
Submitted 2 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.theverge.com/tech/880812/ramageddon-ram-shortage-memory-crisis-price-2026-phones-laptops
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nightlily@leminal.space 2 months ago
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 2 months ago
i mean, i thought you were wanting to save money…
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Just you wait. Ai airbrushes are coming soon
pipe01@programming.dev 2 months ago
Yet
sudoer777@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
The supply chain for computing resources is extremely bottlenecked right now. Even with the high demand for open weight AI models the data centers hosting them aren’t able to get the computing resources they need and they keep running into rate limits even for paid users. Z.ai’s hosting quality has dropped which I suspect may be related. Even over the past few weeks this has gotten much worse with the release of Kimi K2.5 being competitive with closed US-based models. Meanwhile we have corporations like OpenAI buying up half the world’s RAM fucking both other people and other corporations. So I’m not sure where this is going to end up, but the computer hardware market is going to really suck for a while.
tynansdtm@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Are they coming to harvest the RAM from my computer?
IratePirate@feddit.org 2 months ago
“Harvest” is such an ugly word, mister! We rather like to call it an involuntary donation…
MolochHorridus@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Time to install some razor blades for “cooling” purposes.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Your kidneys are next.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Great. Maybe we can stop using electron in native apps now.
Postimo@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
They won’t
Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I can’t wait till these companies shutter their AI shit and that supply gets dumped back into the market
Knowing real life some other party will juice it and ride the ram shortage for another few years, just keeping the supply as a speculative income stream.
carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Sadly a lot of this is chiplet interposer mounted HBM and not UDIMMs. The HBM cannot be removed from the products it’s installed from so unless you want an H100 ir won’t be off much use. The remainder is mainly server RDIMMs and LRDIMMs. UDIMMs for desktops are in short supply because they cut manufacturing to make other things.
InFerNo@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
I took the plunge last month and went with 32GB 6000MT/s DDR5 in a new system. 16GB VRAM card, too.
We’ll see if this system will hold up for as long as my old pc did, which was 10 years.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Look at mister millionaire over here!
AA5B@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s fine, I’m over here eating popcorn, watching all the drama……
Luckily I’m not likely to need any laptop, phone, tablet. game console, car, tv, etc any time soon. All my higher end devices are good for a few years until the bubble bursts.
That being said, my hobbies tend to be in low end devices. We know raspberry pi’s are now expensive and likely to get worse, but I wonder how it will effect the tiny bit of old technology memory in things like “smart switches” and sensors
sudoer777@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
My Pixel 6 Pro is about to lose software support even though it functions perfectly fine, and GrapheneOS has the idiotic logic of “sending software updates for unsupported phones is bad security so it’s better to not send any software updates at all and make it even more unsupported”. Either way I can’t really afford a new one so I guess I’ll just stick with a phone with abandoned software for a while.
solxix@pawb.social 2 months ago
LineageOS goes all the way to version 23 (Android 16) if you’re willing to switch
varyingExpertise@feddit.org 2 months ago
We said that a few times, first it was the harddisk factories flooded in Thailand IIRC, then it was GPUs for crypto, now it’s this shit. Not much bursting, more like a chain of bubbles.
sudoer777@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Imagine if the crypto GPU shit was actually AI all along. After all a Google employee got fired for saying they made a sentient AI a while back before the AI hype.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
All that means is that I’ll start caring about something else. It’s RAM, not food or shelter.
Avicenna@programming.dev 2 months ago
That is ok we will get more videos of cats making lattes.
chunes@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They are underestimating my willingness to run tiny systems. Say hello to Tiny Core Linux.
Allero@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Running something meaningful on a $20 hardware is a pleasure like no other
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Its a nice flex to be more productive on a potato than some are on the fancy stuff
btsax@reddthat.com 2 months ago
I’d just point out that now might be a good time to add a whole-house surge arrester and/or get a bunch of new surge arresting power strips for your hardware. They have a useful life measured in joules dissipated so replace them if they’re old too or your cheap RAM (among other things) may let out the magic smoke one day.
j4yc33@piefed.social 2 months ago
Laughs in AC/DC Model Trains and Battletech
sefra1@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Paywalled
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Flagship smartphone chipmaker Qualcomm is warning that companies will build fewer phones, period — and that remaining phones will be more expensive. CEO Cristiano Amon says a big dip in its smartphone business will be “100 percent” because of the memory shortage. Here are some choice quotes from Amon on the company’s February 4th earnings call:
“Unfortunately, I think that the whole sector is impacted by memory.” “Industry-wide memory shortage and price increases are likely to define the overall scale of the handset industry through the fiscal year.” “OEMs are very likely to prioritize premium and high-tier, how they have done in the past.” “We just wish there was more memory.” CFO Akash Palkhiwala also said: “We’ve seen several OEMs, especially in China, take actions to reduce their handset build plans and channel inventory.”
How much more might you pay? Hard to say, but IDC points out that memory represents 15–20 percent of the materials cost of a midrange phone, and about 10–15 percent of a high-end flagship phone.
mlg@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Go Go Gadget zswap!
kossa@feddit.org 2 months ago
Here I was hoping to casually siege a castle, but alas, no battering ram to be had ☹️
Cherry@piefed.social 2 months ago
maybe we can have a ram:btc chart…🤣
discocactus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Jokes on you…
danh2os@piefed.social 2 months ago
I already bought all I need for the next 4 years back in 2024. Hopefully it all continues to work.
Sektor@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Across all the devices we have at home i would estimate we have around 70-80 gb of ram in total. Probably even more.
0x0@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
You’re rich.
Sektor@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No, I’m just a regular guy, low income actually. I bought 2 second hand ipad pro tablets (10inch), one second hand samsung tablet (10inch), my pc has 32gb ram (after i was on 16 gb ddr3 for a decade i bought a new pc last summer), wife has a second hand ThinkPad with 16gb ram, mini pc has 16 gb ddr4 and 2 smartphones with 14 gb ram in total. That’s not rich.
lengau@midwest.social 2 months ago
I was supposed to get a device with 64 gigs of RAM later this year. I just got an email telling me that due to the RAM shortage they’ve cancelled the 64 gig version.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
So will GPU and mainboard get cheaper end of year or do i have to wait longer?
sturmblast@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Good thing AI sucks