I think the funniest part of this computer memory shortage is that all of it is just being bought up by OpenAI to give the illusion of a growing company, who is then immediately shelving it in warehouses and never using it. When this industry crashes the amount of brand new GPUs flooding the secondary market is going to be nuts
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@Shadowman311 I haven't found any source for OpenAI buying up RAM to shelve it. They secured 40% of RAM manufacturing capacity by making two deals at the exact same time, and the market was already volatile due to tariffs etc.
But even if what you say is true, how is
>OpenAI [] immediately shelving it in warehouses and never using it.
going to make it magically turn into GPUs once the company craters?
But even if what you say is true, how is
>OpenAI [] immediately shelving it in warehouses and never using it.
going to make it magically turn into GPUs once the company craters?
@WandererUber @Shadowman311 There was an interview where someone said they had bought up so much hardware that they couldn't use it all.
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-...
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-...
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@paper9741 That's a related but different thing. Thanks anyway
@WandererUber Well, it's true that it's not 5080s in datacenters, but a surplus of server hardware would still relieve the consumer market. RAM is the bigger problem right now anyway, and I'd buy some used server RAM.
@paper9741 none of that is what's happening. The RAM deal referenced by OP and me is blank wafers "to be turned into some form of memory"
they're not stockpiling server RAM
they're not stockpiling server RAM