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Motherboard sales are now collapsing amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/1091783

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[–] 6 points 5 months ago (1 child)

The wet dream for big tech has been to get people to pay subscription fees for compute, just like businesses do for cloud hosting.

Imagine the mental health benefits when AI datacentres make computers unaffordable, so we all have to go outside more, and then the AI datacentres shrivel because they have no customers, because we can't access anything with no computers. So the AI companies die off.

I can dream, ok?

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    I would love this to be an unintended outcome from all this. However, I don't think that's where we're headed.

    I, for one, think there's a lot of slop in and around the engineering of phones. We might see a lot more software, storage, and overall activity crunched, compressed, and crammed into our portable devices instead. And with more stuff in the cloud/SaaS realm, they can also become (even) thinner clients at the same time. :(

    It's "heavier" gear like laptops and desktops that'll probably get pushed into the pro and "prosumer" market.

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