Valve says there's no end in sight to the memory crisis, and prices are only going to increase: 'Honestly, it's still getting worse'

Wish the media would stop referring to ai as a boom. It makes no profit, there is no AI boom.

Nvidia, sk hynix, samsung, and micron have full order books that the latter are taking advantage of, while demonstarting a complete disregard for corporate social responsibility. When openai, anthropic and the hyperscalers behind them default on the future nvidia orders, the gravy train is going to derail real fast. Hopefull at the same time as their sales pipelines fall apart, the chines ram makers will produce consumer chips at a respectable cost and we can see how long the stupid current monopoly lasts. I cant fucking wait.

First it was the end of Moore’s law, and now the delicate balance that existed for so long between computers getting more memory and software getting more bloated has been wrecked by software more wasteful than anyone could’ve imagined. So much for the so-called Information Age. I guess it’s Disinformation Age time.

I just wish Valve would try to deliver the SteamMachine in form of barebone: without ram and storage. So customers can find their own way to build their PC.

…and once freed from ram cartel, push for a very alluring price on par with what they did with the SteamDeck.