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$1 billion of iPhone 18 Pro chips 'on the shelves awaiting packaging' due to DRAM shortages — memory shortages reportedly put a wrinkle in Apple's launch plans (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Apple is usually very on top of such planning. That they haven't solved this is because they expect the ai bubble to burst any day now and free up memory sources.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    Those memory sources aren't going to instantly start pumping out consumer ram again. The chips used for AI are different, and they've moved most of their manufacturing capacity to that.

    Hopefully the chip fabs got deposits for their orders, because when the bubble pops they might go under and then consumers are really screwed.

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