For a normal user, yes. For the Great AI race, no. The current ‘RAM apocalypse’ as AI companies soak up all the GPU and DRAM supply in the market is part of that. Any AI company using a critical part that is 5 years old is not a competitor.
On the other hand, a home user with a 5 year old critical component is totally ok. Some computer nerd using a four year old RTX 3090 for 4K gaming is probably ok for the next two or so years. He may not have a choice anyways considering how prices for newer tech have shot up as all capacity is soaked up (DDR5 prices have shot up 600% in some cases).
A multi-billion dollar company competing against other American and non-American multi-billion dollar companies in a multi-trillion dollar industry? Where the likes of ChatGPT are calling a code red emergency after the realization that they took their eye off the ball and the likes of Gemini 3 have become far better competitors.
Not so much, but I am sure you knew that.
FR is a political website and thus most of our views have strong political hues that are not necessarily based on reality. Thus, the angst is more in the Indian CEO than having companies use obsolete (obsolete) hardware for their specific use cases (specific use cases).
Good observations and points, and yes, much of the anger towards Indian CEOs is from millions of Americans losing their jobs to H1Bs, not based on merit, but on price, damn the quality. India does not have some special talent for producing CEOs. The motivation for the Indian CEO pipeline is because they WILL lay off Americans.