The shift to SaaS and Windows 11 updates means you no longer own your software. Here is how free software tools can help you reclaim control.
The shift to SaaS and Windows 11 updates means you no longer own your software. Here is how free software tools can help you reclaim control.
The PC market has shrunk 80-90% in one year.
Even before that the GPU market was overvalued thanks to unusually high demand from COVID and unusually high demand from crypto mining the decade before.
Even consoles are reaching the $1000 mark soon.
This thread is calling out a legitimate problem, but things aren’t that bad.
Last year the market grew by 9%. This year it is projected to shrink by 11%. That’s huge, but not 80-90%.
The cost of GPU’s and memory increased 5-10x in 1 year. What did you expect?
Also the old stuff still works great if you aren’t running AI. Hell I have a FX-8350 and a 1060 which is just fine for most things…and I think that CPU is from 2015.
Not just GPUs. This time is RAM and storage are also massively inflated because they’re allocated for a product that nobody really wants and nobody wants to pay for.
I heard a rumor that China is preparing to flood the RAM market - bringing prices back down.
It’s all artificial scarcity at the moment, they don’t spin up foundaries quickly because the capital investment is huge, but overall the chips don’t cost that much to build, even accounting for the capital up front. The problem is the market didn’t provide enough supply to meet the AI demand, so - like $100+/bbl oil - we’re faced with scarcity pricing (AKA record profits for those holding the stock.)