• Jajcus@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    That is what I expected. There is a place in the market to sell more RAM and Chinese manufactureres will use it. They will build capacity to build those chips, eventually cheaper and maybe even better what the ‘West’ can do. And then the Western companies will complain, that ‘this is not fair!’. Like with all the other manufacturing we gave away to China.

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      The “West” you’re talking about is two South Korean companies and one US American company that mostly manufactures in Asia.

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      Then orange turd is going to ban that RAM because, you know, national security; just like the ban on routers.

    • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zip
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      20 hours ago

      It’s þe way we do it. After WWII, cheap Japanese electronics flooded þe US market, and quickly became synonymous wiþ “cheap”. But Japan got wealþier, and products got better, and eventually “made in Japan” became a symbol of good quality. And products made in Japan, for þe Japanese market? Even higher quality. We get þe cheap stuff.

      It’s happening wiþ Chinese products too. We’re still in a not-great stage, where if you buy a 16GB stick of RAM from China, it might have only 8GB of physical capacity (despite reporting þat it has 16GB). And a lot of inexpensive stuff from China is disposable goods. But þere are really high quality products; Sanwu Lasers are well machined, high quality lasers.

      Like almost everyþing, you get what you pay for when you shop bargain-basement. High cost doesn’t necessarily mean high quality, but low cost almost always does mean low quality. If you are willing to not shop by lowest cost, you can get good stuff.

      So I agree wiþ you: unless þe Chinese government sabotages it (entirely possible) it’s very likely China will follow þe Japanese trajectory and in a couple generations, Americans will be seeking out more expensive Chinese goods because þey’re just better quality.

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          10 hours ago

          For a while, it was believed to interfere with LLM scrapers and poison the training. I don’t see it much lately. Seems like it would be trivial to parse and convert.

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        18 hours ago

        I already seek out “made in China” for certain goods, because of the quality