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CPU shortage is 'getting more serious day by day, no less than the memory chip situation' says unnamed gaming PC company

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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨throws_lemy@lemmy.nz⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/processors/cpu-shortage-is-getting-more-serious-day-by-day-no-less-than-the-memory-chip-situation-according-to-an-unnamed-gaming-pc-company/

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  • OwOarchist@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Every day, I grow more eager for the inevitable crash of the AI market. Sora getting killed seems like a good portent.

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    • HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The endless promotion of AI by virtually all tech company CEOs and shareholders, to me, is the most definitive proof that the rich would rather burn it all down than give any compensation, respect and decency to the working class.

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      • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Thats the whole point. They are so immensely rich, they could fix most of the world’s and its people’s problems fairly quickly, and still be rich enough to continue to live in unbridled luxury and splendor, while the population would be mostly happy and content with the system. But apparently money is addictive and so they would rather ruin the world and societies by promoting a shit into fascism than give up even a sliver.

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      • BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You’re blaming the wrong people. The issue is on the side of demand - investment funds pour almost infinite money into AI destabilizing the market. Hardware manufacturers are just a cog in this madness

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    • mierdabird@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Good luck, with Hormuz closed most of Asia’s LNG shipments are blocked (which TSMC relies heavily on), plus other crucial chemicals for the chip making process like helium

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      • EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I did not have “helium shortage disrupting the tech industry” on my bingo card.

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      • Vlyn@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Luckily Australia is their largest source and they upped the amount. They can also get more shipments from the US.

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    • Mihies@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’ve been listening for this inevitable crash for some time now, but nothing yet. Crossing fingers. Eventually we will all need CPUs, disks, RAM etc.

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      • Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        The crash will come at some point, but based on the last decade, crypto boom, covid, just greed, now AI. Some new bullshit comes and jacks up the prices even more.
        Call me a doomer, but the market is permanently messed up. It will not recover as long as some new player, maybe China, will enter the market.

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    • doctor0710@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m skeptical about Sora getting killed. I think it’s very plausible that they just privated their model for internal use by the US gov. Sure, it’s one less power hungry AI video generator, but there are multiple of those available already, I don’t think it’s the win most people think it is.

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      • lemmyng@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Also likely: they just took the investment money and ran, the fucking robber barrons they are.

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      • film@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Disney probably killed it tbh

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    • cRazi_man@europe.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Could happen tomorrow, could happen in a year or two. Stay tuned for more updates on the ongoing shit show.

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      • balder1991@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        And I feel like this war with Iran will just accelerate it. Lots of AI investment come from Arab countries, right? The ones who are suffering the damage from the war that Israel started because of their alliances.

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  • themurphy@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is goind exactly as planned by big tech.

    They dont want you to own your own hardware. They dont want local storage. They want to control EVERYTHING.

    When personal computing is expensive enough, they will offer remote access to their server space, where you rent some specs and the screen (your computer access) is projected to you via internet.

    Then they’ll earn the subscription money, and they own every single log file and data on “your” computer.

    As soon as this is the cheapest option by a margin, they WILL get costumers. No doubt. And it’s awful.

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    • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’ll switch to legacy systems before I pay for a subscription service.

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      • EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        The only intense stuff I use is gaming. And I have no issue sticking with lower spec games that can run on a potato.

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    • emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This assumes really good internet infrastructure and still requires some sort of terminal at the user end. Of course, Bezos is a billionaire and so might be dumb enough to believe it himself.

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      • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        They’ll subsidize cheap locked down thin clients that can do jack shit by themselves except make an RDP connection to a VM.

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    • pHr34kY@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      My wife hit the 15GB Google limit last week. Holy shit.

      Her phone storage was full, so:

      • Photos were silently removed from the device and uploaded to Google Photos.
      • Once it was full, it locked her out of Google services. It even locked her email and took forms offline.
      • It then demanded payment to get access to her files.

      Google Photos is ransomware by definition.

      I ended up doing a takeout, and found that all the photos had the exif tags stripped and I had to re-merge them from a .json file that sat next to it. Otherwise they had no timestamp/location data and no other software would index it.

      Fixing the mess required me to alter my photo import program (written in C) and use some scripts I found on github. It was a full weekend project.

      I can see why a lot of people will just pay the ransom.

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    • Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Big tech is making wayyyy to much money selling artificially inflated parts and pieces, Some people may buy into a second generation Web TV but gamers and builders won’t. ( I know - I was there 3000 years ago when net nanny’s were buying Web TV and I was selling Packard Bells with 4MB RAM).

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    • Lumisal@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think this might fail for the same reason VPN companies began succeeding.

      Porn.

      Just have a few organizations say “Want everyone at Amazon/Microslop to know your fetishes and what porn you search for? Buy (thin client offered) now!”

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  • hark@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    CPU manufacturers were getting jealous at the other hardware manufacturers claiming shortages in this artificial scarcity scenario.

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    • carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Intel and AMD aren’t claiming shortages. They are switching what they are manufacturing. Companies downstream of them in the consumer space are reporting shortages.

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      • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        AMD for sure is trying to manufacture mostly server GPUd for AI, but does Intel even have anything competitive in that space?

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  • daggermoon@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is why i’m building a server with a DDR3/Phenom II motherboard.

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    • pHr34kY@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I have 96GB of ECC DDR3 laying around with nothing to put it in. I should find some low-power hardware that will take it.

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      • 4am@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        “96GB of DDR3” will never really be “low power”, take it from a guy who built a homelab with a DDR3 machines a while ago…but you should still pick up whatever hardware you can as soon as you can. Like, seriously, they’re taking personal computing away from us.

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      • daggermoon@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’ve had the motherboard sitting around collecting dust for awhile. I was looking into buying a NAS until I realized it was a ripoff. Figured why not build a system around POS from 2011.

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      • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        No chipsets from that era that handle 96GB are going to be affordable to run - unless you’ve got excess solar or something.

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  • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Man I’m so happy I barely game anymore and my home server was rebuilt 2 years ago, hopefully it doesn’t crap out anytime soon 🤞

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    • stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I started building my first server last year, I only need two more 8TB drives to complete my raid ambition

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    • Vlyn@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Indie games are better anyway and don’t need much hardware power :)

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    • yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I find myself playing more and more graphically simple games, like schedule 1, crosscode, jackbox, etc. . . And there are many others. I was worried that my pc would be too weak for gaming, but man, there are so many fun games that dont need photorealistic graphics to run. Even NFS 2015 looks great, and isnt hard to run.

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  • rimu@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And then there’s the helium supply shortage, on top of that - https://www.techspot.com/news/111683-critical-semiconductor-gas-lost-third-global-supply-drone.html

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