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[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 7 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Far as RAM goes, it will become a good thing: it gives companies incentive to invest into the development of bigger RAM, more speed, and making the motherboard bandwidth big enough to handle it.

The next big generation of hardware will be much better IMO, simply because the companies will have to compete by their merits. The downside is not having enough supply right now, but once the logistics and tech is in place, even non-AI people will benefit.

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

No, it won't. The DRAM market is dominated by three companies, and they've colluded before. They get their wrist slapped by some government body, they promise not to do it again, and then they wait a few years and do it again.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

They'll also have an electrical outage the millisecond demand starts to go down, so they'll have to sell the old stock at inflated prices first before restarting production, oopsie-woopsie

[–] plyth@feddit.org 9 points 2 hours ago

The downside is not having enough supply right now, but once the logistics and tech is in place, even non-AI people will benefit.

Have you forgotten that they agreed to reduce production to stabilize prices? Capacity is not the real bottleneck.