The fucking gall, right?

The GPU shortage may have ended but the crazy prices never really went away

This time is different because the chip fabs intentionally retooled for AI chips. It's not an uncontrollable external pressure.

There's no guarantee that they'll switch back to consumer modules after the bubble pops. I'm willing to bet that Big Tech's contingency plan to the pop is to utilize a dead consumer market to push subscription based virtual desktops and zero clients.

In capitalism, if the demand is outstripping supply then eventually higher prices will command greater investment and the eventual return to normalcy of the supply vs demand curve. In theory it is more of the same, but how prolonged it will be will be dependent on when the AI supply/demand curve achieves normalcy.

That's the whole idea. Buy up all the silicon production, go public, tank and take the rest of the tech industry down with you, and rule the world.

Hence why openAI seems now to want to stall IPO as long as they can...

And you are right, they singlehandedly are most of the problem despite not even being in the strongest position even if you are bullish on AI.

Same. My sister bought a kit of two 16gb sodimm sticks back in October for ~$100. I regret trying to wait for holiday deals...

I can't even buy the ram I need anymore, even if I wanted to pay out the ass for it.

I bought a framework laptop without RAM just before all this, decided to splurge on 2x24GB sticks. I'm glad I did but I still wish I bought bigger ones.

I am sooo glad I got my new gaming rig last black friday, even though it wasn't a great discount

Same, bought 2x22TB enterprise HDDs for $260 each in May of last year. Even recertified ones now go for $650. Praying they don't die

Who else would it be at the expense of?

The wealthy haven’t finished funneling everything to themselves.

Selling to consumers is charity at this point. They are such a tiny portion of the market. Consumer will lose always unless regulations step in.

Witg finite supply casual users will lose against people using computers to make money.

I mean, both times in two years ive bought storage/ram the prices have increased afterwards. So depends on how much you need it/can wait.