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Neural Foundry's avatar

The HBM prioritization is really the hidden story here. Those AI chips need massive amounts of high bandwith memory and the margins on HBM are way better than consumer DDR5. Samsung and SK Hynix are basicaly saying gamers can wait while they rake in datacenter money. Brutal timing for anyone planning a build.

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OmegaNine's avatar

Well put. Its just going to get more rough. Everything must burn so AI can keep living. Next think we will hear is "We found a way to run AI models on monitors, they are 5 grand each now."

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LukeSitewalkr's avatar

Whos the man? You da man El Cappytan! Also, I would just like to submit my 2 cents and say we should at least have a fun playdate on Turkey Day! That would be a fun thing to do, especially for the Tadpoolers who are at home by themselves. If you decide to have a playdate, count me in Captain!

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CORE's avatar

We are def playing Friday!

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Stravyn's avatar

yep! paid $650 for 64gb of DDR5 The other day at micro center (they all had posted prices though). A part of me died

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Zac Audette's avatar

Could you credit your image sources and sources for your info? That is more important than ever with AI companies scraping and surfacing info without doing so and making money off original reporting.

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CORE's avatar

Yep! Good idea. First image is from the Vengence site. 2nd I made in HTML. 3rd is a promo image from Steam for the Steam Machine. And finally, that guy with the card at the end I drew myself. :)

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Zac Audette's avatar

Appreciate it. Love your commentary and the show!

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CORE's avatar

Thank you, Zac!!! And thanks for the attribution reminder. I need to get into that habit more.

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