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      The endgame of the RAM/SSDs being pushed out of the hands of consumers by billionaires and corpos is the end of personal computing, ‘You will own nothing and subscribe to everything’, compute, which this video is about, also housing (rent), transportation (car lease) and anything else they can get their greedy, rent seeking, oligarchal, technofuedalist hands on.

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      Nvidia is cutting back on consumer market significantly, primarily selling to commercial entities

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        And that private equity is pulling off the same shit that they did with the housing market - buy up the global silicon waver production so costs go up, rent it back to you while externalizing costs for the data centers and electricity. This goes hand in hand with NVidia and the likes extracting money from the Pentagon and getting tax breaks, externalizing costs further. This is not about building your PC anymore, we are just the first ones to feel it - memory is in fucking everything, and it’s a market that’s easily cornered if you have a lot of money to throw around because of limited production capability.

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        It’s not a dig against Nvidia, imo. All companies do this if they can. AMD siphoned off chips for enterprise from both cpu and gpu, because the premiums you can charge are so much higher.

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          Doesn’t really work with fancy computer stuff. The supply lines are too long. There are like a dozen factories on earth that can make modern good computer. Less, I think

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          The is my sentiment exactly. This is a perfect opportunity for China to step in to the market with arm computers. And just at the right time when valve is investing heavily in running windows games in ARM. Unsurprising for American vendors to step on their dicks and shoot themselves on the foot out of sheer arrogance.

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            Yes, or better yet, RISC-V, it’s within spitting distance of viability, China could push it over the line. Pretty sure Valve would get on board, they’re pretty good at porting proton now. If they can get modern DRAM (e.g. DDR7 or HBM) fab going, to the moon (perhaps literally ;). Likely simpler than CPU for first gen EUV.

            ETA: Ask and ye shall receive, China’s EUV prototype https://www.heise.de/en/news/Report-China-is-said-to-have-a-functioning-EUV-lithography-system-11121936.html

            It’s on baby, at least in 2028 ITA. (I hope sooner, they’re talking about a HBM graphics card next year elsewhere (likely manufactured at TSMC tho), so they know what to do with it once it works. and given the current situation I expect China to just thrrow money at the project, it’d be a huge win)

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            AMD is actually better now considering there’s a very high chance Nvidia is vibe coding their drivers.

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              I’m strongly considering selling my 4070 super and picking up a 9070xt. I’m sick to death of NVidia and their garbage. Hope they fucking bankrupt.

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            Their rocm driver stack for computing isn’t as good as CUDA, but they’re closing the gap year after year. Their open GPU drivers on linux are far superior to Nvidia

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          It doesn’t, because there is no excess of parts. Nearly the chips are already going to nvidia.

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        Their justification is basically that the RAM shortage is going to drive up prices and drive down consumer demand, which is probably right. The companies building data centers don’t seem to be so price sensitive

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        Well. The good thing about that is that when you have nothing to lose you have all to gain, and there’s a particular class of people with everything to lose.

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          “Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose,” – Janis Joplin (Kris Kristofferson)