sanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoValve Says The Companies Making RAM Give Them A Price And If They Say No, They ‘Never Talk To Us Again’kotaku.comexternal-linkmessage-square189linkfedilinkarrow-up1660arrow-down17
arrow-up1653arrow-down1external-linkValve Says The Companies Making RAM Give Them A Price And If They Say No, They ‘Never Talk To Us Again’kotaku.comsanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square189linkfedilink
minus-squaremojofrododojo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·1 month agocoupled with the fact that the cartels refuse to expand production; this tells me they’re realistic about the moment - it’s not going to be a decade of future humongous peak RAM consumption, because otherwise they’d be blisteringly stupid (to lose out on those potential increased sales)… https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/memory-makers-have-no-plans-to-increase-production-despite-crushing-ram-shortages-modest-2026-increase-predicted-as-dram-makers-hedge-their-ai-bets
minus-squarekkj@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 month agoThey see the AI bubble for what it is, just like the rest of us, and they don’t want to be holding warehouses full of shovels when the gold stops coming.
minus-squaremojofrododojo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoentirely agree. if there were overproduction it would cause the prices to crash, can’t have that.
coupled with the fact that the cartels refuse to expand production; this tells me they’re realistic about the moment - it’s not going to be a decade of future humongous peak RAM consumption, because otherwise they’d be blisteringly stupid (to lose out on those potential increased sales)… https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/memory-makers-have-no-plans-to-increase-production-despite-crushing-ram-shortages-modest-2026-increase-predicted-as-dram-makers-hedge-their-ai-bets
They see the AI bubble for what it is, just like the rest of us, and they don’t want to be holding warehouses full of shovels when the gold stops coming.
entirely agree. if there were overproduction it would cause the prices to crash, can’t have that.