on the bright side, no more wifi on fridges and cars and toasters.
sauce?
tartar
I’m pretty sure these companies are paying attention to RAM and CPU costs and second guessing the value in adding them to these appliances. I don’t need a source. It’s common sense.
While it may be common sense, I could also see “hey just jack up the price, we need the data points for advertising/data brokers”
It’s killing everything that relies on having a computer inside or in-use. Say goodbye to ‘smart’ products, expanding any kind of business, cars, etc. Everything relies on some kind of DRAM these days.
Say goodbye to ‘smart’ products
Silver linings?
Nah. The vendors will kill their ecosystems earlier and all the established internet-of-trash will be e-waste quicker. We’re still using a portal-TV unit and loving it, for example, but so many other products brought out during the sudden rush will be killed while still on umbilical .
lucky for me I have a pile of SBCs from uncompleted projects. and no, do not climb in my window looking for them
Please tell us where your window is - how can we avoid climbing through your window, if we don’t know which window we are not supposed to climb through.
DRAM pricing is killing every single market. That’s what happens when we have a fully digitized, centralized market.
