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0 pointsnaveen9922d ago0 comments

Cloud can’t make money off of you and pay more than you for the hardware at the same time.

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Batch inference is much more efficient. Using the hardware round the clock is much more efficient. Cloud can absolutely pay more for hardware and still make money off you.

bitwize22d ago

Cloud can pay more for RAM until all the RAM producers withdraw from the consumer market, then prices will go back down.

End users will still get access to RAM. The cloud terminal they purchase from Apple, Google, Samsung, or HP will have all the RAM it will ever need directly soldered onto it.

seanmcdirmid22d ago

Doesn’t Apple place RAM directly into the SoC package? We aren’t even talking about soldering it to mother boards anymore, it is coming in with the CPU like it would as a GPU.

xantronix22d ago

I was really fucking hoping we weren't at the part where "cloud terminals" doesn't seem farfetched and paranoid and yet here we are. Jesus Christ.

bitwize22d ago

The next step, I think, will be a "cash for clunkers" program to permit people to trade in old computer hardware to the government—especially since operating systems that do not collect KYC data on their users will soon be illegal to operate.

naveen99OP21d ago

Ram upgrades are happening because of ddr5. Nvme upgrades are happening because of pcie5. Prices will come down once everyone is done upgrading.

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adrianN22d ago

Batch inference is much more efficient. Using the hardware round the clock is much more efficient. Cloud can absolutely pay more for hardware and still make money off you.

bitwize22d ago

Cloud can pay more for RAM until all the RAM producers withdraw from the consumer market, then prices will go back down.

End users will still get access to RAM. The cloud terminal they purchase from Apple, Google, Samsung, or HP will have all the RAM it will ever need directly soldered onto it.

seanmcdirmid22d ago

Doesn’t Apple place RAM directly into the SoC package? We aren’t even talking about soldering it to mother boards anymore, it is coming in with the CPU like it would as a GPU.

xantronix22d ago

I was really fucking hoping we weren't at the part where "cloud terminals" doesn't seem farfetched and paranoid and yet here we are. Jesus Christ.

bitwize22d ago

naveen99OP21d ago

Ram upgrades are happening because of ddr5. Nvme upgrades are happening because of pcie5. Prices will come down once everyone is done upgrading.

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