Memory apocalypse kneecaps motherboard sales by as much as 50%, and CPU sales might be next
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  • Gerudo@lemmy.zipEnglish
    29·
    8 hours ago

    The whole industry is going to collapse if the RAM shortage goes through at least 2 quarters. New PCs will be too expensive and underpowered. Old PCs can’t be upgraded. This means other components won’t sell. Margins are razor thin on electronics, and companies won’t be able to survive an extended drought like this.

    • Zorque@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      5 hours ago

      The big players will then sweep in and take over everything not nailed down, monopolizing everything.

  • Laser@feddit.orgEnglish
    11·
    8 hours ago

    Motherboards have risen in price over the years as well, you could have a very decent board at 150€ five years ago but today it feels like you need to pay at least 200 to get anything mid tier. I remember when I checked the price of my board that I bought early 2020 around 2023 or so, the price had gone up. But yeah, if you can’t put memory in your already expensive board, maybe you don’t need to buy a board on the first place.

    I’m in the lucky position that my machine is still adequate (3900X / 32GB RAM / 1TB SSD) with only the GPU being weak (5500XT 8GB), but it doesn’t matter for the games I play. So I can sit out another two or three years.

    We’ll see how it turns out - I don’t expect the current generative AI investors to make an RoI anytime soon. If at all.

    • orclev@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      8 hours ago

      I don’t expect the current generative AI investors to make an RoI anytime soon. If at all.

      Considering what they’ve been spending and the fact that not one of them has figured out how to actually make a profit off of generative AI, they’re going to be in the red for at least a decade if not forever. This is just the dotcom bubble all over again and in a few years 90% of these companies pushing AI heavily will be bankrupt. Only silver lining is there’s going to be an absolute fire sale on old used data center hardware at some point, not that that will make up for destroying the PC sector and our economies in general.

  • ascendings@fedia.io
    2·
    8 hours ago

    I can’t say I’m surprised. I can’t imagine too many scenarios where one would want to buy a motherboard without RAM and a CPU, barring the obvious replacement purchases and the occasion you might need a feature your board doesn’t have (like PCIe gen 4 to gen 5). Yet another hardware shortage definitely puts a damper on enthusiasm too…

    Maybe we’ll see motherboards come down in price to drive sales? One can hope.