Asus won’t be producing shit. They’ll be slapping their name on some kits already being produced by another company.

What Gskill, Kingston, Corsair, Mushkin, Crucial, etc. do already. If any one of these appears or disappears, it makes zero difference to supply. The original manufacturers switching to HBM because Nvidia/OpenAI wanted them to (not to mention OpenAI doing a deal with Samsung and SK Hynix for 40% of earth’s entire supply) is the cause of this, and it won’t be solved by some Asus stickers being slapped on some RAM sticks that otherwise would’ve still been sold, just with a different sticker on the front.

This article thinking that ASUS will plan, build, and operate a state of the art DRAM fab in a short timescale is absolute fantasy.

AM4 is the greatest CPU socket that has ever been created.

The fact some shitty athlons were sold on it, but also something like a 5800X3D that has held up so well that some people are still willing to pay this much years later is astonishing to me.

Right wing government dislikes womens rights, more at 11.

Question is, though, who now isn’t on your blacklist?

Samsung and SK Hynix never sold to consumers directly, yet seem to be avoiding flak. Micron is now joining them in that.

Who do you get that isn’t that three? Almost all RAM on the market is Samsung, SK Hynix, or Micron.

On top of that, Samsung and SK Hynix were the ones that signed the OpenAI deal (OpenAI bought 40% of the world’s DRAM supply and kicked off panic buying), so tbh Micron is the least responsible for the current DRAM market issues.

Motherboards seem to have a normal amount of slots though?

Not like you can populate them all anyway, though. Use one modern (i.e. oversized) graphics card and it seems to block three slots.

It is off by default.

The alt-text tagging is pretty amazing according to my sister (blind), too.

That stuff is commonly included in the AI umbrella.

Does anyone even talk about what the “AI features” are?

The one I use the most is their offline translation. I don’t have to send my data to Google Translate.

My sister (blind) uses the new screen reader stuff a lot.

Mozilla is certainly adding good AI features, but the chatbot integration isn’t something I have much use for.

Not implementing any AI is stupid.

I for one appreciate having offline, private language translation. Sending it to a Google Translate server is a privacy nightmare.

My sister appreciates the better screen-reader functionality.

Plenty of people do want AI features.

This has been part of the news since the very beginning.

That’s literally not true, though? They’ve spoke about it for ages.

Huh?

Micron is one of the big three DRAM producers.

And the South Koreans aren’t lowering production, unless you mean DRAM specifically in favour of HBM for the datacentre/AI market (which is what they are doing), that would be crazy given the level of demand, it’d just let competitors take the market. Samsung and SK Hynix are expanding fabs, but they’re not expected to be operational until 2027.

Blatant misinformation being upvoted lol

I work in IT and have since 2011… most people are buying $800+ phones for no reason

I do actually agree, but it’s funny you say this in a post where you’re glazing the Galaxy S4.

Adjusted for inflation that thing would cost $876 today.

But yeah, people spend way more than they need to on phones. Midrange or used is perfectly fine.

On the contrary people expect this to be a step towards a general redistribution of manufacturing capacity towards HBM for parallel compute products.

That is where much of the overall wafers are going. But that would be happening regardless of whether the Crucial brand is around or not. Even if Crucial was still a thing going forward, those same wafers would still be going towards HBM.

I think he hit the nail on the head when he said that Crucial being cancelled is just a symptom of our shit market, not one of the causes. It makes zero difference.

Who says the Samsung NAND couldn’t be bought by other OEMs to make consumer SSDs

His point is that Samsung (the manufacturer) is scrapping production, not that Samsung (the consumer brand) is stopping selling products that otherwise are still being produced and sold under different brand names.

Stopping production of something sold under many brands is obviously a lot worse than a brand stopping sales of something that other brands will still sell (albeit in lower quantities in previous years due to HBM production being ramped up at the cost of DDR5).

Unless the dataset, weighting, and every aspect is open source, it’s not truly open source, as the OSI defines it.

Oracle recently put out a ridiculously optimistic forecast that had them matching AWS within a handful of years. At first the market loved it.

Now I think people are beginning to realise that was a load of bollocks and that they were just overhyping the stock.

There are other even more dyslexic-legible fonts that IMO look better

It really doesn’t, but it that’s how you want to run away from the truth little guy then go ahead.

What a dipshit take.

There is not a single patch of land where humans have lived where atrocities haven’t happened. Not one.

Some countries, though, are committing atrocities right now.

Equating them is absolutely moronic. What kind of Old Testament whacko are you? Put that “sins of the father will be paid by the son” bullshit in the bin where it belongs.