Valve's Steam Machine Has Been Delayed, and the RAM Crisis Will Impact Pricing (theverge.com)
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- News link: https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/02/05/0030225/valves-steam-machine-has-been-delayed-and-the-ram-crisis-will-impact-pricing
- Source link: https://www.theverge.com/games/874196/valve-steam-machine-frame-controller-delay-pricing-memory-crisis
The company said in a post today that rising component prices and limited availability forced it to revisit both its shipping schedule and pricing plans. Valve had previously indicated the Steam Machine would be priced at the entry level of the PC space.
[1] https://www.theverge.com/games/874196/valve-steam-machine-frame-controller-delay-pricing-memory-crisis
Manufactured crises (Score:3)
Where LLM actors are using investor money to suck up everything in order to keep it out of the hands of the competition.
Cannot wait for this bubble to pop and we get to see those responsible hanging from street lights. (Hahahahahaha - not)
it'll still be entry pc price.... (Score:2)
but entry pc price is going up too.
upgrades delayed (Score:2)
It looks like those who didn't upgrade their stuff are going to haver to pay a premium for no extra quality or features, or sit this out until 29-ish for increased fab capacity, unless the bubble pops, which could be as early as 26, but I haven't seen any serious analysis regarding indicators, so I've no way to tell. The bubble might actually not pop but sizzle. The later the more that could happen, the reason being the consolidation and finding of uses and markets that will have time to take place.
Re: (Score:2)
Well, the AI tech-bros still haven't found anything close to the revenue needed to justify their current insane spending.
I'm holding my breath for a big explosion that sinks 99% of them. Leaving the remaining hanging on by threads that never recover.
The sooner it bursts the less damage the dopy LLMs will do.
Let's hope China saves us (Score:4, Interesting)
Rumor has it some Chinese chip manufacturers are developing DRAM chips, which should be cheaper.
\o/ (Score:1)
Everyone aboard the "Let's fuck people over" train.
Is this an explicit mechanism to curry favour with industries which aren't destroyed by the AI bros or just a happy accident (unless you don't want to be gouged because AI investor-greed) ?
AI is economically disastrous (Score:2)
AI doesn't destroy jobs because of replacement, but simply because of malinvestment.
The amount of companies getting destroyed here for a bit of boom and bust in datacentre construction is ridiculous.
Poetry for the modern age (Score:2)
The promise of AI was once
diffusion of infinite cunts.
Then they took our RAM,
so now it's a scam,
and I'm just a mem-paging dunce.
Boooooo (Score:4, Funny)
Bad AI!
Re: (Score:2)
Thanks, Altman!
(Sure, there are others but he's the poster boy)