yardratianSoma comments on [prebuilt] PC shipments fell by a massive 20% year-over-year last quarter, and yes it's due to the memory crisis

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[–] yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

it's almost like there should be dedicated modules for each purpose, rather than the GPU being the one-stop-shop for high-demand computing.

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[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 24 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

I don't understand. The GPU was created as a dedicated module. It just happened that the parallel tasks needed for rendering games could be used first for crypto and later LLM's.

The problem is factory capacity. It doesn't matter how you divide up the components based on purpose if one company prepays all factories to only make components for themselves.

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[–] altphoto@lemmy.today -3 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Specialized AI chips are coming.... AIUs lol or SIUs (is you're stupid as F)

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[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago

That's even worse. It means there will be no left over GPUs for gaming. Factories will produce AI specific chips and nothing else because gamers won't pay $10k for a GPU card.

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[–] kunaltyagi@programming.dev 4 points 4 weeks ago

NPU are kinda useless

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