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IGNNow That 2027 RAM Manufacturing Capacity Has Reportedly Been Sold Through, It's Hard To Imagine the RAMageddon Ending Any Time SoonA new report suggests that all three memory manufacturers — Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron — have collectively sold through their 2027 memory manufacturing capacity to AI companies.
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Replying to @⁨CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de⁩

and they’ll just age out of usefulness.

Nah, we’ll stall on this generation. Even if a new one is released, very few will pay the extra when games would alreadyhave to start becoming RAM optimized again. Even Windows just dropped their 32GB recommendation.

Without the recommendation being met, people weren’t buying windows PCs, so lower the requirement and people will buy more computers and more copies of windows. Which means they always could have just optimized better if they felt pressure.

Games will 100% do the same.

Which could be a huge thing for rational companies right now.

The big hurdle to domestic production is you’ll spend billions and by the time it’s built it’s “last gen”.

Instead of useless data centers, we could be building up domestic chip production, confident it will still produce top of the line chips when it goes live.

A literal golden opportunity, more so if China goes after Taiwan finally, you’d be the only international supplier.

As far as I know, no country is doing it tho.

Replying to @⁨zurohki@aussie.zone⁩

They didn’t need 32 GB to run windows…

They never needed 32 GB to run windows, they never would.

Windows said every laptop needs what a gaming pc needs, because Windows wanted us to have that ram to use AI features that are coming.

Like…

They didn’t have to optimize because they never needed it to begin with

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