Micron, which has undertaken a $200B US expansion, says it can currently meet about 50% to 66% of demand for some key customers, as AI drives memory chip demand
For decades, memory chips were low-margin commodity products. Now the industry can't make enough to satisfy data centers' hunger.
Wall Street Journal Robbie Whelan
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@jaypeters.net
Jay Peters
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Valve's Steam Deck website says that the Steam Deck OLED “may be out-of-stock intermittently in some regions due to memory and storage shortages.” Earlier this month, Valve announced that the Steam Machine/Controller/Frame had also been affected by the RAM crisis. — www.thever…
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Pure Xbox
Ben Kerry
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New Report On PS6 Delay Throws Next-Gen Timing Into Doubt
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@kylebrussell
Kyle Russell
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How long would Sony have gone releasing games for both PS5 and PS6 anyway? What's ruined?
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@wasphyxiation
Sherman McCoy
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There wouldn't be a RAM crisis were there not for a bad software crisis. Microsoft Word 2007 needed 512 MB of RAM for decent performance. It needs 4 GB today.
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@tunguz
Bojan Tunguz
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This is also why the dream of *affordable* local AI hardware will probably remain a pipe dream for a foreseeable future.
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@tomwarren
Tom Warren
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this RAM crisis feels like it's going to ruin consumer electronics over the next decade. Bloomberg reports that Sony is considering pushing the PS6 release to 2028 or even 2029 https://www.bloomberg.com/... [image]
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@citrini7
@citrini7
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“RAMaggedon” [image]
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@sonusvarghese
Sonu Varghese
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Chip shortage ??!! 🧐 https://www.bloomberg.com/... [image]
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@breakify
@breakify
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“Sony Group Corp. is now considering pushing back the debut of its next PlayStation console to 2028 or even 2029 [...] Close rival Nintendo Co. [...] is also contemplating raising the price of [Switch 2] in 2026”
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@toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk
Ryan T. Brown
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Sony is reportedly considering pushing the PS6 to 2028 or 2029, and Nintendo considering a Switch 2 price rise, due to the chip shortage caused by AI demand. — (Read more at Bloomberg) [image]
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r/GamingLeaksAndRumours
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Bloomberg: Sony is considering pushing back the debut of its next PlayStation to 2028 or 2029, Nintendo contemplating raising price of Switch 2
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r/NintendoSwitch2
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[Bloomberg] Nintendo contemplating raising price of Switch 2"
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@scully1888
Chris Scullion
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If you're in the UK, have had your eye on a Steam Deck for a while now and have been waiting to pull the trigger, this might be the time to go for it. It's still in stock in the UK but it looks like it's either about to be sold out everywhere for a while, or get more expensive.
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@theredvipe70072
@theredvipe70072
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I TOLD EVERYONE A YEAR AGO to buy a steam deck before this happened, now get a switch 2 before they increase the price or they put on hold due to the same issue, same goes for any other pc handheld or shit even a console, for the love of god stop console warring and invest!!!!!!
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@geoffkeighley
Geoff Keighley
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All Steam Decks are currently out of stock in the US. Per Valve, Steam Deck OLED may be out-of-stock intermittently in some regions due to memory and storage shortages. [image]
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@jessefelder
Jesse Felder
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“On the supply side, we are doing everything we can to add capacity.” -Mark Murphy, Micron's chief financial officer www.wsj.com/tech/micron-...