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Comment on IDC warns PC market could shrink up to 9% in 2026 due to skyrocketing RAM pricing — even moderate forecast hits 5% drop as AI-driven shortages slam into PC market

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krooklochurm@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

What are you going to solder?

I love soldering but I’ve got no soldering projects at the moment and I’d love some inspiration to attach tiny copper stuff to other tiny copper things.

Also I think that this thing lasting forever depends on some kind of return on ai, which NOBODY is seeing. Current models aren’t accurate or good enough to replace humans in most things yet, and sooner or later the demand for enterprise-capable gpus for this tech is going to dry up. Or there’ll be a new kind of model that will upend the market. Or whatever.

I really don’t think it’s as dire as you make it out to be, but I do think things will be tight for a couple years but I could be wrong.

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ashughes@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I think there will be a “return on ai” eventually, just not with this race to the bottom with chatbots. It’ll come from machine learning applied to solving problems in medicine and sciences and other areas of complexity.

Admittedly machine learning and “ai” get lumped together these days but I think there is a difference.

Also, thanks for reading my (long) rant. 😆

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