last i heard even nvidia having problem making gaming gpu that they’d slashed 50’s card production down. now im not sure how credible this source is but its pretty telling how bad the situation is rn. even if its a lie to slash unprofitable product line.
On the scale of all tech companies, Valve is very low down. Even Big Players like Amazon have trouble getting the best deals; if you’re not Apple or nVidia, you get to just go fuck yourself.
wopalopa@lemmy.world 3 days ago
tal@lemmy.today 3 days ago
Samsung is one of the Big Three memory manufacturers. Samsung’s phone division had some news articles talkimg about how they couldn’t get Samsung’s memory division to give them privileged access, even.
(Though for context, about two years earlier when there was a glut of memory and Samsung’s memory division was losing money, they apparently went to the Samsung phone division and tried to get them to buy a bunch of the excess, which I suppose would have meant putting more memory in their phones than would have been optimal. The phone division told them no way.)
NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com 3 days ago
That’s not too surprising. Samsung is one of those mega companies that its own divisions fight for contracts all the time. I remember hearing about, for example, the Samsung division that produces touch screens isn’t guaranteed a spot in the latest Galaxy smartphone but has to bid on contracts for that spot just like everyone else.
NekoKoneko@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Well, I don’t think Nvidia is “having trouble” making 50 series cards. I think they have fab allocations that they are choosing to prioritize to AI products and its current ROI with blank check hyperscalers, compared to retail consumer products.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Lmao what makes you think even Apple has any special treatment?
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Industry experience.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
I mean, historically, absolutely, everyone knows that. But do you know for a fact that, now, in 2026 they’re still getting first pick at normal “sweetest deals”? I would assume maybe better than some, or at least still getting supplied at all. But I thought I recently (in the last 2-3 months’ish) heard something about them also getting fucked: by the big AI datacenter players; Apple, to my knowledge, is not, at least not on that scale.
If you have insider/industry experience, though, that’s that… I no longer am close friends with people at Apple, and to dispute confident, current inside knowledge becomes a different discussion for a different place with different people.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 days ago
My information is probably less out-of-date than yours, but yeah, they’re probably getting hit as well, just not as hard.
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 3 days ago
They did have to bump up the prices.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Yeah, the specific RAM shortage is affecting everyone.