• tal@lemmy.today
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    4 hours ago

    unaffordable for the next decade

    If you’re talking RAM prices, those are expected to come down in early 2028, so 18-ish months.

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      2 hours ago

      So how are they expected to come down? If new capacity becomes available the ai companies would gobble it up again.

      • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldOP
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        Just ad infinitum? If so, the most profitable venture for any human being to be involved in right now would be RAM production. All of those producers would be expanding, because there would be infinite demand. No, these purchases are capex costs; the kind that they have to do once or every so many years. And the only way it happens every so many years is if the companies currently buying these things survive long enough to replace those parts when they reach their end of life.