[dennisw]

There 3 major RAM manufacturers. They can make much more money/profits manufacturing the complex RAM that AI data centers are gobbling up.

And Micron/Crucial just announced they are dropping out of making consumers and retail level RAM. All production from them will be devoted to AI data centers. So this leaves only two majors. Samsung and Hynix in South Korea.

You plan to buy a new HP or Dell laptop in 2026. You be paying more, due to soaring RAM prices.

[Brian Griffin]

AI policing, weeding, picking and mowing can’t be done in an AI data center.

[KrisKrinkle]

So, in a few years we’re going to have the equivalent of dumb terminals connected to a mainframe some where else?

It’ll be a “device” under our fingers connected to an AI Center through the Internet?

[wally_bert]

Part of my job is refurbishing old PCs to be put back in service since my agency can only buy so many new ones a year.

They are basic small form factor Dell PCs.

I swap the old HDD for a SSD and up the RAM to 16 GB and they run great.

[The Duke]

I was planning to invest in Micron before they announced this.

While I'm intrigued by AI, and make good use of it, it is a bubble, and those who go "all in" on this technology are going to have a bad day ahead, IMHO.