• dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net
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    16 hours ago

    None of that RAM (or the GPUs) have been purchased. All that is just letters of intent or even flimsier agreements, there’s no contracts or actual money changing hands.

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      15 hours ago

      Doesn’t matter, they’ve captured the entire supply chain which was their goal.

      This is not about AGI… its about monopolizing the future of computing.

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      11 hours ago

      the good news for RAM prices is when OpenAI makes money by either reselling “contracts”, or cancelling/getting cancelled their letters of intent to make ddr5 instead,

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        We’d hope but you just know they’ll try and rob us blind still somehow. Intelligence is second from the bottom to these people.

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      14 hours ago

      All that is just letters of intent or even flimsier agreements, there’s no contracts or actual money changing hands.

      Not quite. So while none of it has been made the pre-production, procurement, scheduling machine time, that is what’s going to make retooling to make consumer RAM take forever. TSMC or whomever can’t just flip a switch and produce a different product. It takes weeks to months to change over production that complicated. Money will change hands, work has already been done and agreed upon.