11 pointsby theoneone7 hours ago3 comments
  • jmhollaan hour ago
    From the opposite angle, there's apparently evidence that the RAM companies themselves are price fixing: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/samsung-sk-hynix-...
  • xyzsparetimexyz2 hours ago
    So you're arguing that ai companies overbought memory to increase scarcity? Possibly even buying e.g. consumer ddr?
    • theoneonean hour ago
      just a theory! The end result was too make it difficult for me and you to run llms on our systems, and you need porwerfull system to run them. But some months ago, those powerfull systems where affordable for end consumers. Now, good luck buying let's say 128gb ddr5.
  • theoneone7 hours ago
    Some personal thoughts on the current ram/GPU shortage -price hikes.