• Rothe@piefed.social
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    20 days ago

    Because they are mainly producing components for datacenters, which will be used for cloud computing. Only consumergrade hardware is overpriced.

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      7 days ago

      Only consumergrade hardware is overpriced

      Well no, the memory price increase is specifically here to price gouge AI datacenters. If you’re running a non-AI datacenter, and if you’re targeting consumers, like with remote desktop gaming, you have AI-like costs (literally, since servers GPUs are gaming GPUs), but without the enterprise customers. Oh and you also need the best bandwidth possible, because a few added milliseconds might make the “remote” use unbearable, which is an added cost datacenters don’t have to deal with on the same terms.