This was the idea of Sun Microsystems ‘Sun Ray’ desktop in the late 90’s.
A thin terminal that ran almost entirely on the network. Maybe this is why Ellison ended up buying them all those years ago.
Comment on ram
Fancy_Gecko@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
at this point , they dont buy ram to expand their data centers , they are just buying them to take it away from normal users so they become reliant on data centers . they want end user devices to just be a screen , means of input and internet
NovaVeles@lemmy.world 1 day ago
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I legitimately think they’re buying so much to stop their competitors from buying more. These companies now have more GPUs than they can fit in their datacenters, but they’re still buying more. These are assets that rapidly depreciate.
NovaVeles@lemmy.world 1 day ago
A big part of this is Nvidia twisting their arms. “Buy this many billion dollars of GPU’s or we cut you out of future GPU purchases. This way we can both look like hyperscalers.”.
Intel used to do that same thing to OEM’s. Force them to buy junk like Pentium D chips so that they could have priority access to Core 2 Duo/Quads of the time.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours ago
Maybe nVidia isn’t even making the gpus, nobody will know right? Just empty boxes worth billions…