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Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead
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I can only hope that the A.I. bubble bursts in time when I need to buy a new computer.
I think it's a lost cause. Essentially both crypto and AI were big because someone figured out how to offload shit to a GPU efficiently. There's probably a ton of other appllications for GPUs we haven't even tapped.
I've got this crazy idea where we can use GPUs to render 3D scenes efficiently.