I didn’t look into it in detail, but might this be more specific to RAM/video cards? With costs of those components skyrocketing, whoever is committing to buying those is going to have a hard time forecasting.
So maybe they’re offloading that risk? Kinda like a futures contract, but for computer chips.
Midnitte@beehaw.org 1 month ago
Leave it to Oracle to advertise it as something completely new and innovative.
definitemaybe@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I didn’t look into it in detail, but might this be more specific to RAM/video cards? With costs of those components skyrocketing, whoever is committing to buying those is going to have a hard time forecasting.
So maybe they’re offloading that risk? Kinda like a futures contract, but for computer chips.