The AI industry continues to gobble up manufacturing resources that were once dedicated to serving PC, smart device, and gadget makers. We’ve seen huge demand/supply driven price rises in RAM, GPUs, SSDs, and more through 2026. Now that most basic and unglamorous electronics necessity, the PCB, looks set to join them. A news report published by Nikkei Asia quotes several leading PC and PCB industry managers, making it clear we are going to see PCB (and PCB subcomponent) shortages and price rises in the coming months.

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[–] -1 points 1 week ago* (1 child)

Which means I can buy 32GB+ accelerator cards for peanuts on Ebay to run DS4.1 or Qwen3.8 at home on my own machines.

Same with memory eventually despite the memory cartel trying to prevent it from happening. Once demand implodes for GPUs, so does this synthetic demand for so much HBM, which means a pivot back into consumer memory and normal server RAM...

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    LLMs are still mostly useless, unless you want to fry your brain. The people that claim "moderate usage is the way to go" are just like the "I only drink one beer a day" alcoholists. Sure they don't get so drunk every day they're trashing pubs and the likes, but that doesn't mean they're not addicted.

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