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  • Nvidia and Micron are making emotional appeals to consumers while PC users express frustration with big AI companies’ practices and self-serving motives.
  • Memory vendors predict DRAM and SSD shortages lasting until mid-2027, while new tariffs on advanced computing chips and potential Steam Machine pricing over $1,000 add to consumer concerns.
  • The article highlights how corporations use emotional messaging to mask financial interests, advising consumers to remain skeptical of such appeals.
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[–] melfie@lemy.lol 65 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

What’s going on right now is that the TAM [ed: Total Addressable Market] and data center is growing just absolutely tremendously. And we want to make sure that, as a company, we help fulfill that TAM as well.

Your TAM is about to go bam, so cut the shit and make us some RAM.

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 30 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I can't take anything that uses the word "tremendously" seriously any more.

[–] crusa187@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 days ago

Bigly agreed

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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I might buy a new tennis racquet instead. Humanity emerges blinking into the sunlight as hypnotic little black rectangles become unaffordable.

[–] ksigley@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That was their plan all along. Resist by gaming twice as hard.

[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 56 points 2 days ago (2 children)

They(the companies) want AI to takeover so badly. They know they can control everyone if only we would embrace their slop. The idea we all have a terminal that has no storage and no computing ability that just allows us to access their slop remotely. For a forever fee of course.

[–] Analog@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 days ago

Don’t forget obligatory data mining the crap out of you!

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[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (6 children)

They are going to kill an industry and damage peoples ability to access technology.

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[–] deadymouse@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

And all these memory are spent on the generation of pornographic content in the highest quality.

highest quality.

Man's got jokes!

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Idk I've seen better in the amateur section

[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 day ago

In the "amateur" section with professional cameras and pretty experienced (one could say glorified) "amateurs".

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[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 42 points 2 days ago

Micron reported a revenue of $37.38 billion for fiscal year 2025. Nvidia reported a revenue of $57 billion for just its latest quarter. AI is hot. Meanwhile, inflation and interest rates continue to depress consumer spending power here in the U.S., which is reflected abroad as well. AI has also torched jobs—it’s fueled thousands of layoffs already.

Torched jobs, the environment, and climate.

Sure, in the grand scheme of things, the fevered pace of tech often has led to good outcomes in the end.

Only when it's well-planned and well executed, with people and our habitat treated well.

But that doesn’t change the individual impact of incomes lost, plans destroyed, security evaporated. So when a company makes a play for my agreement through emotion, I always wonder: Who benefits from this vision?

[–] tal@lemmy.today 45 points 2 days ago

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chuckles

[–] MeatPilot@sh.itjust.works 34 points 2 days ago
[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 19 points 2 days ago

weird emotional appeals

“I think we’ve done a lot of damage lately with very well-respected people who have painted a doomer narrative, end of the world narrative, science fiction narrative. […] It’s not helpful to people, it’s not helpful to the industry, it’s not helpful to society, it’s not helpful to the governments.”

“Our viewpoint is that we are trying to help consumers around the world. We’re just doing it through different channels. […] What’s going on right now is that the TAM [ed: Total Addressable Market] and data center is growing just absolutely tremendously. And we want to make sure that, as a company, we help fulfill that TAM as well.”

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