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'The retail SSD market has almost disappeared,' says Silicon Motion exec; OEMs are buying third-party drives as direct NAND supply dries up (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 24 points 4 months ago (6 children)

MMW in the 2050s people will be ripping apart tablets from the 2010s for their base components and rigging together electronic monstrosities comparable to what we see African mechanics doing with old cars.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    in the 2050s

    As long as demand is steady and predictable, I'd expect prices to ultimately be lower, because it reduces the costs for NAND memory makers by increasing their economies of scale. Spreads the fixed costs of manufacture over more units.

    That doesn't solve things for those who need SSDs now, though.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

    IMO this whole AI/Data-Center/Chips debacle is because the billionaire class expects a long term, possibly permanent, interruption of the global chips supply chain. That's why they've pre purchased the next several years of supply.

    Because once China invades Taiwan there will be no more chips. If they could outsource this shit to an African nation it would have 100% happened by now. Taiwan is a modern day Murano Island, which had a centuries long monopoly on glass making because of their population of highly skilled glassmakers. China can't just bomb Taiwan cuz it'd literally kill Taiwan's value as a chip supplier.

    The billionaires have realized that the iphones and the algorithms are the only thing keeping them in power. If they don't build a subscription model for computing than people will solve all the problems capitalists hves been artificially creating.

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  • [–] -3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    china is not going to invade Taiwan, they have already seriously expanded their production capabilities.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    They're literally building the logistic and transport ships to secure a beachhead.

    As this one security analyst put it, if the confederates had stolen all of our gold and setup shop nearby, do you think the US would let that go?

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