btw fun fact: openAI gobbled up half of the dram market. that's why as you may have noticed, ram prices have gone crazy high this year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A-eeJP0J7c
it's a bit silly if you ask me. the high-end markets are going to be completely screwed for the next few years.
@libreleah they gobbled up dies, not manufactured, usable RAM
@tofu that's what makes it even worse. i can't think of many reasons, except perhaps to limit the amount that competing AI firms can buy?
@libreleah We're talking about Sam Altman economics here, they rarely make sense. I guess they could try to hold them off and sell them at a marked up price later?
idk, call me crazy, but maybe enforce anti-trust laws, don't allow monopolies, etc. seems sensible to me. don't let a single corporation reduce the amount of ram the world can buy by 40%.
and modernise the laws against price fixing and so on, so that you can actually punish this sort of thing
letting one american company destroy the world economy seems pretty dumb if you ask me. maybe... don't let them do that???
@libreleah also don't forget to block any and all corporate lobbying. Corporations shouldn't be allowed to dictate the regulations they have to follow.
@libreleah Also, don't let a single company produce the chip making equipment.
@rubinjoni make providing verilog/vhdl, schematics, boardviews, gerber files, firmware/software sources available too. #righttorepair basically
make it mandatory to provide these things when selling a manufactured computing product, or any other type of electronics.
@libreleah @rubinjoni By now, they've realized they are sitting on a pile a cash many times the price they paid, for datacenters that are still a longway from being ready...
