This could go on for another 10 years.

This mess is going to get a lot worse before it gets better.

  • notaviking@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I love how we have to protect Taiwan against Chinese annexation because the World relies on their chips, but when extremely large corporations basically take away the World’s supply of chips it is supposed to be fine.

    At least with the Crypto and now the AI craze we are at least getting used to shortages from the eventual war of the chips

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      6 months ago

      How about instead of building concentration camps, we build chip factories, and employ all the people we’re abusing? Then they can spend their earnings, and pay taxes, and stimulate the economy.

      Or we can lock them up, create a chip shortage, destroy otherwise viable companies, and keep our economy limping along, satisfied with the false metric of the Stock Market as a score.

      • Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        6 months ago

        Yeah, I wouldn’t give the current admin any ideas. It’d be less of a “employ all the people” and more of a “work will set you free” type of arrangement.

  • Ex Nummis@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    The longer this goes on the more it seems like the explicit goal rather than a side effect.

  • surewhynotlem@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Well… The ram manufacturers will have a great surprise when AI doesn’t continue growing exponentially and all their other customers have died.

    But at least we made the line go up this quarter I guess.

    • MimicJar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      I doubt RAM manufacturers will feel any pain. From the article,

      Pua Khein-Seng is further said to have highlighted that memory manufacturers are now “demanding three years’ worth of prepayment (unprecedented in the electronics industry)”

      If they’re really being prepaid three years in advance that’s a huge cushion. Of course this assumes that it’s really money and not just a contract for more money.

    • Shayeta@feddit.orgEnglish
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      6 months ago

      LLMs haven’t been growing exponentially for the past 2 years. What we are seeing right now are the final stages of optimizing the product(by OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.), and initial stages of consumers/companies figuring out actual effective areas of application.