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Chinese memory can now match the speed and latency configs of the RAM in our gaming PCs (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If their competitors can’t keep up

Their competitors have already sold out their entire 2027 production.

The money they make selling RAM to private consumers is not even 1 promille of their revenue.

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    Their competitors have already sold out their entire 2027 production.

    Plenty of which will inevitably turn up on the secondary market.

    The money they make selling RAM to private consumers is not even 1 promille of their revenue.

    The RAM they sell to home-labbers and hobbyists, sure. The RAM they're selling to Dell and Lenovo and Apple? A significantly higher chunk of their revenues. But that's a side issue. These kinds of RAM sticks are largerly fungible.

    The new high end AI datacenters are building out specialty hardware that isn't PC compatible. And the real worry is that these firms migrate over to the AI datacenter designs in a way that causes a semi-permanent shortage on the independent PC side.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Interesting. I have heard that hardware manufacturers create specific chip architecture to suit AI technology.

    Though I had not considered that the hardware might shift so much as to be rendered "useless" for the average consumer

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