TLDR:
OpenAI made a deal to secure 40% of the global supply of wafers from both SK Hynix and Samsung (2 of the 3 large providers of RAM) ostensibly for project Stargate server farms. But it gets so much worse, they made both deals on the same day without advising the other company, and have not provisioned any way to actually use (make chips from) the wafers. It looks more like they’re just trying to keep RAM out of the hands of their competitors.
From there the laws of supply and demand and panic buying by everyone else took over, RAM prices are going to the moon, and Micron (the third big provider) dropped out of the consumer market because they’re gonna make bank in the server market as the only unencumbered company. Consumer general purpose computer customers are royally boned. This will flow through into the SSD market as well.
In short, Fsck the AI industry in general and Fsck ‘OpenAI’ and Sam Altman in particular. If you pray, pray that this deal gets a legal injunction in South Korea, coz you know the US will just applaud this fsckery.
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People who have been holding off on building a new systems due to part prices since 2020
I’m in this picture and I don’t like it.
u n me both…
Just when I started considering that maybe it’s time to look at new parts, a new hurdle candy into view. My computer might graduate from elementary school before I can get a decent price on parts. Or maybe they’re will never be decent prices on parts again.
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I am currently living about 13 years behind current times, but man are those Tombraiders good.
I had everything in my cart.
I was waiting for Black Friday.
I get an alert saying the RAM in my cart was unavailable.
I’m thinking, okay, maybe they’re out of white RAM, I’ll just do black.
The $200 kit in my cart was now $1,200, but worse yet, everything but the slowest RAM was out of stock.
I decided, fuck this, fuck them, and I bought everything but the RAM.
A few days later, I told my friend my troubles, he says: “DUDE! I HAVE SPARE DDR5 in my closet!”
I tell him: “I will pay for shipping, fair value of the RAM, and 20% extra for your trouble”
The moral of this story is fuck these greedy bastards, you can train your 10T models but please leave gamers alone; they are a tiny % of the demand for DRAM chips.
P.S: Pay the kindness forward, help your fellow friends with any spare parts
I bought a used 5950x in between for cheap.
Why are we censoring the word fuck
This is a Christian Minecraft server
I normally dislike self censorship of profanity, but replacing fuck with fsck (filesystem check) is a Unix joke, and I can appreciate that.
Eh, I hadn’t bothered to read the comm rules and doing a filesystem check is a suitable pain in the ass. BTW the last word was originally shitfuckery.
Ok self cencoring is always bad.
If you want to avoid swear words use a different one like screw, curse, to hell or sth. Like that.
If you want to curse then just do it. Censoring it makes it weak and stupid.
And in my opinion no rules should ban the word fuck but allow f*ck.
It is useless and annoying.
AI slop thumbnail on the anti-AI text.🤡
They’ve done studies on people’s ability to distinguish a human-made Photoshop from “AI slop”. It’s impossible. People think they can tell but they can’t, so they just assume everything is AI because they want other people online to think they’re cool and anti-capitalist
The cooling fins on the heat sinks don’t really make sense. So pretty sure they are AI generated.
That image of Altman is AI-generated.
yeah, i guess, but the overall thing looks like a human-made photoshop to me. i don’t see the problem with using AI generated images as long as you do the work of incorporating them into your project yourself.
I mean, so are the gpus. At best, the most human input was the Christmas hat and the text on the gpus.
And even the text looks weird.
almost like it’s at the uncanny valley between AI slop and bad photoshop
Ah, the good old argument from supposed “virtue signaling”.
huh? what does this have to do with virtue signaling?
The smile/wrinkles look kinda weird? Could be a generated image of Altman, plus photoshop
so happy I built a new PC last year. so pissed I cant make a new server this year
so happy I built a new PC last year
When tf investors are going to ask for returns on their investments? That’s the only thing that can pop this bubble.
They probably don’t care. Since it drives the entire stock market up. They probably make big bucks on the other side trading derivatives on the financial market making returns that will outgrow the investments in OpenAI. It’s a convoluted version of a pump and dump. Pump up OpenAI so they can dump NVidia options.
Also OpenAi will go public soon. The dot com bubble didn’t pop until all those companies that never made a dime went public. Since investors were then able to dump their holdings into retail investors.
Just a few more billions guys, real close now! Maybe a few dozen more after that, but it’s really getting there!
Oh, look a squirrel!
Who wouldn’t applaud fsck? It’s a great tool that can fix your corrupted file system.
Man, I luckily upgraded to 64GB (when MSFS 2024 said “that’s preferred”) before all this.
He’s evil
If praying people get stuff done; they’re not on our side.
