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Is there an end to the RAM crisis? (feddit.cl)

submitted 2 days ago by fixmycode@feddit.cl to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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for me RAM is a perfected technology, new buses will come, more speed, but it will fundamentally be the same manufacturing process, same materials. The prospect is that LLMs will keep getting larger, more RAM will be required, and the prices will keep getting higher, or along the curve, while the demand will keep up with it because everything has RAM in it. Do you see a point in the future where the industry forks out of this, and there's an alternative where the end user is not affected as much from the demand of this resource?

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[–] Merva@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

No. Most of the Chinese RAM production is going to Chinese data centers, as per Chinese government mandate.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 3 points 17 hours ago

Sure, that'll be the priority, but again, look at solar and EVs. Once production ramps up, these things start getting exported globally at way lower prices than western competition.

[–] Majestic@lemmy.ml 3 points 19 hours ago

Yeah if anyone is hoping for cheaper RAM from China flooding western markets. It may happen but it's not happening this decade. Hope you're ready to wait until 2030s because that's how long it's going to be short of the whole AI thing violently imploding.

[–] orphigle@lemmy.ml 2 points 22 hours ago

Which means Chinese data centers will not buy as much non-chinese RAM any more, so the prices will still fall due to that.