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Fuck Microsoft with an umbrella, but in this case it's not just only Microsoft, there are a lot more and bigger players on this shit dish
I wonder if we’re going to see a console generation with expandable memory for the first time since the N64.
Would make some sense if the current climate persists for a few more years. Sell variants with multiple ram configs at different price points, and when ram prices come down you can wack a ram stick/module in there.
Obvious problems: consoles usually use unified memory, which probably won’t really work with expandable storage, so would need a different architecture. Also, if they use non-standard dimms, it’s unlikely the manufacturers would drop prices of those modules anywhere close to the actual amount of theoretical ram price drops. And this would require cooperation with game developers to make games that work with different ram configs, and give a tangible benefit for having more ram, without breaking compatibility for the base model units.
You think RAM prices are ever going to drop?
Sweet, summer child..
Poor Microslop
I went to my thoughts store and they were all out of thoughts. The prayer store? Out of business.
My fucks to give? Gave the fuck up and left.
My local prayer store burned down. The thots store is still in business tho thank God.
If there was a decent governement behind they would have never left this reaching the point where the consumer market is left with nothing
They're still planning on making a new Xbox? Sometimes I forget there's an Xbox console anymore.
...640k ought to be enough for anybody...
They could just cancel all yet to be manufactured orders for starters...
Episode 7893 of corporations artificially creating problems to make profit by selling the solution. Just to then fail at solving the problem of their own creation.
Brilliant economic system. You can marvel at its ingenuity and just get lost in it.
They aren’t artificially creating this problem, they are inadvertently creating this problem.
AI companies need RAM and other compute components to feed the AI beast which drives up demand, and cost but reduces supply for everyone, including their Xbox and Surface divisions.
Given their enterprise divisions make vastly more money than their consumer divisions, nothing will change.
The problem is artificial, because 95% of all this 'AI' is useless, pointless, and a massive waste of resources. Nobody asked for it, and practically nobody is using it.
Even in cases where a chatbot is helpful, a small, local model is more than enough. Not a single soul needs a 50T parameter model for anything. Nobody on the planet uses AI image enhancement or item removal.
Almost all of this shit is purely made to inflate the bubble, and serves no other purpose. All the while ruining many other industries, people's hobbies, ease of finding factual information online, etc.
The problem is artificial, because it was created pretty much deliberately, for no particular reason other than profit.
But does anyone need ai companies?
The fact that the major players are still in business means someone thinks so.
Are they still 'in business' though? They're burning through money they don't even have at a never before seen rate. Just to make barely useful software that works 20% of the time at best.
I feel like it's the same as saying the banks and real estate companies were 'still in business' in 2008. Naturally, time will tell if it's the same cycle repeating. So far everything seems to be pointing in that direction.
Good, then they can finally be the kings of the shithole they're digging.
sits on his sbc pcs, sticks of ddr4 and stack of old hard drives like a dragon
Idk, maybe stop??
"We're going to crash in to that orphanage! AHHH!"
"Then brake..."
"OH THE HUMANITY!?!"
You can stop pulling the lever at any time. All that happens is modern society unravels as we enter the financial equivalent of a thermonuclear bomb going off. The same will happen but slightly worse if you keep holding the lever.
Better Nate than lever.
Reminds me of that time Samsung wouldn't sell ram to Samsung because they needed to compete with the demand from Samsung.
Wait, what? #OutOfTheLoop
Samsung is a Korean jaebeol. It's a massive conglomerate all owned by the one family, but each department operates very independently and is incentivised largely to maximise its own profit independent of the rest of the conglomerate.
The semiconductor/memory chip production side wouldn't sell the chips to the consumer electronics side, because it's more profitable to sell and feed to the genAI side of the business.
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