I think the average paedophile would take more than a gallon of space, so that will just increase the number you have to use for the calculation.
The average IQ is 100. It’s always 100.
Taking international IQ as 100, they can talk about the average IQ in the country.
Chinese companies still seem to very much be old-school capitalism - they actually still concentrate on making and selling a product instead of just moving capital around with the customer being an obstacle and excuse.
This seems very plausible. But I still don't see what is stopping the AI companies to create proxies to buy out as much of the usable product as possible, maybe only leaving DDR3 and older stuff, so while we will still have the chance to buy it, it will still end up being pretty expensive.
Oh, I thought that was some kind of kung-fu.
Nice.
At my place, most problems happened with Windows. Although those systems were air-gapped, problems occurred with the local-network updates setup by the IT team.
Most Linux systems were either used only for internet or treated as "devices", so minimal complaints there.
The software developers' Linux systems were expected to be handled by themselves, so any IT support would just be a favour.
Well, when the company wants something running on Windows, you got to keep one around.
There are quite a few other things that can happen over here.
Since terminals are still required even if all work is done in the data centres, those companies can now get deals with other AI companies to normally provide devices to them. Or those companies can just normally buy those things off of the distributors. This can in turn greatly increase commodity laptop/desktop prices for us.
US can try "helping" Taiwan and threaten Xi with that, to relax their laws for said companies.
Finally, the governments can start requisitioning computing hardware from us. Honestly, I am just counting my days until this, despite the recent govt. chip making progress.
But then they would also have to stop selling to other companies outside, because they could just have pipes to said AI companies.
Yeah, they went all in on sabotaging the competition. Using their freely given product to destroy them.
How much would it matter?
Even if they are Chinese manufacturers, they would want to go with the high-price buyer, which is larger companies.
And if they do keep some reserve for people, out of some long-term-thought or maybe just some morals, wouldn't they just prefer selling inside China?
And "computing power" is... power.
Kind of odd that none of the “national security” idiots in the US have started ringing the alarms about this yet.
... because they are in on it.
eat up the entire consumer segment
Won't AI companies just fill enough orders to empty all that extra produce?