In the span of 5 to 10 years, do you think there will not be a return to consumer production?
I’d love to see someone explain to me how the current rate of AI capex will continue to grow in that time span, and how it will be financed. I don’t think it’s feasible.
Manufacturing capacity though doesn’t seem very limited in that kind of time scale, it just needs investment and time to expand. Once it’s there… if it’s not used it’s lost profits. AI hardware deliveries are at an all time high but sentiment has been on shaky ground on the investor side starting this year.
The three memory producers have always exploited market disruption for profits, generally cooperatively. They’re really good at profiting during all disruptions which just happen with newer technology. It doesn’t last.
In the span of 5 to 10 years, do you think there will not be a return to consumer production?
Manufacturing will expand and the higher consumer prices will ensure some manufacturers still service that market. Price will be higher, but it’s not going to get to the point where you can’t buy a personal PC.
Considering Crucial is killing consumer chip production, and is only one of three companies making consumer chips, no.
In the span of 5 to 10 years, do you think there will not be a return to consumer production?
I’d love to see someone explain to me how the current rate of AI capex will continue to grow in that time span, and how it will be financed. I don’t think it’s feasible.
Manufacturing capacity though doesn’t seem very limited in that kind of time scale, it just needs investment and time to expand. Once it’s there… if it’s not used it’s lost profits. AI hardware deliveries are at an all time high but sentiment has been on shaky ground on the investor side starting this year.
The three memory producers have always exploited market disruption for profits, generally cooperatively. They’re really good at profiting during all disruptions which just happen with newer technology. It doesn’t last.
Manufacturing will expand and the higher consumer prices will ensure some manufacturers still service that market. Price will be higher, but it’s not going to get to the point where you can’t buy a personal PC.
Micron is stopping Crucial, but they will still sell to companies like Corsair.
Yeah, but at what price?
Killing DIMM production.
That’s of the three major companies that make RAM chips.
There are other companies that make DIMMs. They just buy chips from the RAM chip manufacturers to do it. PNY or Kingston, say.
Micron was just doing a vertically-integrated thing where they did both the chips and DIMMs.
EDIT: Looking back at the article, it does say that.