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RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices (www.pcworld.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Generative “AI” data centers are gobbling up trillions of dollars in capital, not to mention heating up the planet like a microwave. As a result there’s a capacity crunch on memory production, shooting the prices for RAM sky high, over 100 percent in the last few months alone. Multiple stores are tired of adjusting the prices day to day, and won’t even display them. You find out how much it costs at checkout.

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[+] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org -17 points 2 weeks ago (21 children)

RAM is not really expensive. You get enough RAM for most tasks the use of which you can understand, as a fraction of the normal amount for any machine.

You can load a can't stress how good planetary map into RAM wholly, without paging it.

Many text editors today just load the whole file into RAM.

That there's much demand from some other side - oh yes.

BTW, I just got a thought that this might be aimed at hurting China and East Asia in general, when the bubble pops, in the west it'll be just investors losing what they deserve to lose, but in East Asia it'll be actual production rebuilt for the bubble dying in pains.

[–] HereIAm@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago (20 children)

What? You might want to proof read that. The only thing I got from your text is that text editors load an entire file into memory, which has been the case for decades unless you go with a special purpose editor.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Many text editors today just load the whole file into RAM.

been the case for decades

One data point: emacs normally loads the whole file, unless you're using the vlf package or similar.

TECO and ed might not. Dunno.

[–] HereIAm@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ed and sed don't load the entire file in, but vim does. Not heard of TECO before 😄

[–] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

TECO's kinda-sorta emacs's parent in sorta the same way that ed kinda-sorta is vi's parent.

I compiled and tried out a Linux port the other day due to a discussion on editors we were having on the Threadiverse, so was ready to mind. Similar interface to ed, also designed to run on teletypes.

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