TLDR:
OpenAI made a deal to secure 40% of the global supply of wafers from both SK Hynix and Samsung (2 of the 3 large providers of RAM) ostensibly for project Stargate server farms. But it gets so much worse, they made both deals on the same day without advising the other company, and have not provisioned any way to actually use (make chips from) the wafers. It looks more like they’re just trying to keep RAM out of the hands of their competitors.
From there the laws of supply and demand and panic buying by everyone else took over, RAM prices are going to the moon, and Micron (the third big provider) dropped out of the consumer market because they’re gonna make bank in the server market as the only unencumbered company. Consumer general purpose computer customers are royally boned. This will flow through into the SSD market as well.
In short, Fsck the AI industry in general and Fsck ‘OpenAI’ and Sam Altman in particular. If you pray, pray that this deal gets a legal injunction in South Korea, coz you know the US will just applaud this fsckery.
I'm emphatically not saying somebody should soccer-kick Altman repeatedly right in the scrotum, I'm just saying I'd enjoy a good drink with a sigh of contentment if someone did.
Altman is the type of guy who pays to have his balls kicked though…
I don't care if he enjoys it or not. If it prevents him from passing on his clearly defective genes, I'm all for him chasing that Darwin Award.
He's gay.
Good for him, even better for us.
Unless he starts following Elon's beliefs about spreading "superior" genes and pays tons of women to get artificiality inseminated.