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The Steam Machine and Steam Frame are probably delayed, but they still intend to release them in the first half of this year.

They said they planned to have a concrete launch window and pricing by now, but hardware pricing/shortages have made that hard to pin down.

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[–] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 73 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Sam Altman is OpenAi. OpenAi is. ChatGPT. ChatGPT is "ai". "ai" has caused a massive shortage of consumer hardware and a massive increase in price. Consumer hardware is what would be used in the upcoming SteamCube.

So, that's how.

[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 61 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He is not just any AI guy. He specifically bought out 40% (!) of the memory production of the entire world (!!), which is the direct cause of the chip shortage and skyrocketing price.

[–] Thunderbird4@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And not because his company has a specific need for it, but specifically as a market denial tactic. It turns out, if you have no meaningful way to make your product useful, but also have more money than god, you can just disrupt global supply chains until your competitors can’t compete and your unwilling market is captured.

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I believe people should be nothing short of eaten for this.

[–] Slotos@feddit.nl 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well, IIRC it’s not indirectly. Sam Altman negotiated pre-purchase of massive chunk of wafer supply, which OpenAI backs up with its virtual money.

So DRAM manufacturers are facing a wafer shortage in near future. Which translates into prices now.

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Money that Nvidia might invest in them.