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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 11 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

What I'm surprised hasn't happened yet is RAM ICs being recycled at the retail level. As in, you could bring in an old laptop or phone with 32GB of soldered RAM and it would be desoldered and sold for cash or possibly even soldered into a new device you buy from that retailer.

I wonder how close we are to that business model arriving.

[–] Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

How many 16k 4116 RAM chips can your laptop handle?

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

4116s are DIPs. I'd de desolder those myself for installation into my Intel 8088 luggable.

[–] Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I want to be there when you set that up on the table at your next departmental meeting.

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 19 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

MY CLASSIC SCI-FI SOFT COVER BOOKS!!??!1

Edit: MY CLASSIC CONSOLE COLLECTION?!

The things I love the most don't have RAM, or I already have them 🤷

[–] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 61 points 23 hours ago (48 children)

Going to be fucking hilarious when all the western companies get fucked by China taking over the market they don't seem to care about.

[–] jali67@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

They’re wealthy but absolute fucking morons. The people who fall for the “they have money so they must be smart” are such gullible buffoons. CCP is much more competent than American oligarchs, running what could’ve been great with better policy into the ground.

[–] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 38 minutes ago

It's almost as if socialism makes for a better capitalistic system. It's a lot better when the oligarchs fear the government rather than the government fearing the oligarchs.

[–] SalaciousBCrumb@lemy.lol 7 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Hmm I know China has a big push for AI as well, I wonder what their market is looking like.

Edit: https://www.chinatalk.media/p/how-much-ai-does-1-get-you-in-china Ah seems like their AI isn't as big due to lack of access to western chips.

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