Consumer computing isn’t going to stop, people will just shift to other means of procuring it. Eventually some other player will take over the gap. The present limits on manufacturing chips and the decay of the petrodollar is going to shake things up. Just like we saw with the home console market, when you abandon a productive market, somebody else eventually just takes it.
There’s more than enough scrap AM4 most places to answer most people’s computing and gaming needs, at least here in the rust belt. Scrap and 2ndary markets can absorb some of the market for a couple years. I don’t think people are out here buying 5070s to play Vampire Crawlers right now.
Until RAM prices come down nobody can swoop in. Nobody is going to sell to market with very small profit margins when you could sell to a market that’s almost pure margin.
When RAM prices come back down they’ll go back to their usual MO of Nvidia minus 5-10%
Supposedly it’s really expensive and takes a long time to build new factories for the basic essential components, and nobody wants to commit to doing that because of the risk that the current spike in demand will not sustain and they will have to sell what they produce for cheap.
If there is a gap in the meantime, consumers will be incentivized to move away from hardware they can’t afford which could have long term effects on what kind of computing they are used to, ie. using less PCs, more mobile devices relying on cloud servers.
They are saying the market price is so high that consumers will no longer purchase their product.
Apart from that what other consequences are there?
Consumer computing isn’t going to stop, people will just shift to other means of procuring it. Eventually some other player will take over the gap. The present limits on manufacturing chips and the decay of the petrodollar is going to shake things up. Just like we saw with the home console market, when you abandon a productive market, somebody else eventually just takes it.
What other gaming hardware are people going to buy? Nvidia? Yeah cause they’re so cheap…. Lol
There’s more than enough scrap AM4 most places to answer most people’s computing and gaming needs, at least here in the rust belt. Scrap and 2ndary markets can absorb some of the market for a couple years. I don’t think people are out here buying 5070s to play Vampire Crawlers right now.
Until RAM prices come down nobody can swoop in. Nobody is going to sell to market with very small profit margins when you could sell to a market that’s almost pure margin.
When RAM prices come back down they’ll go back to their usual MO of Nvidia minus 5-10%
I think its more limitations drive innovations. They may not be the source of that innovations.
Supposedly it’s really expensive and takes a long time to build new factories for the basic essential components, and nobody wants to commit to doing that because of the risk that the current spike in demand will not sustain and they will have to sell what they produce for cheap.
If there is a gap in the meantime, consumers will be incentivized to move away from hardware they can’t afford which could have long term effects on what kind of computing they are used to, ie. using less PCs, more mobile devices relying on cloud servers.
That’s what they want to happen, but we have more agency and materials than they think we do.
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