We’ve consistently held and communicated a philosophy of absorbing price increases wherever we can, making pricing predictable and ensuring that when you place a pre-order, you’ll be able to get the product you ordered at the price you ordered it at. We’ve been able to do that to date with Framework Laptop 13 Pro, and have absorbed increases in a number of areas. However, we recently received a cost update from our LPCAMM2 supplier that goes far beyond anything we had predicted and anything we’re able to absorb without placing our ability to operate at real financial risk. Rather than the low-to-mid double digit percentage increase we had forecast from Q2 to Q3 on LPCAMM2 costs, we received prices that are more than double that of the prior inventory we had brought in. We have enough LPCAMM2 memory modules on hand to cover all existing pre-orders, but unfortunately not in the mix of 64GB, 32GB, and 16GB that matches those pre-orders.
$239, $800, $1600 respectively for 16, 32, 64gb camm
The humans are making those decisions whether you use AI or not. There’s lots of bias in training any form of model, and many people doing the training dont likely prioritize. Yes there is actual training bias like leakage and sample distribution issues that everyone knows, but the implicit biases are far more insidious. Look at all the facial recognition software or the countless prison ml/ai applications that are ridiculously biased to minorities. AI is no better and arguably worse. Are you going to ask the AI how it got to its answer? Because it can’t tell you about its little weights.