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Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026

394 points · 443 comments · speckx

zsoltkacsandi · 1790860272 · focus · HN ↗
No one will use AI products if there won't be consumer products because of RAM shortage.
1. pickleglitch · 1790860529 · focus · HN ↗
  The plan is to make us all use shitty hardware like a chromebook and rent compute from the cloud for anything heavier than a web browser.
  1. cube00 · 1790861267 · focus · HN ↗
    > anything heavier than a web browser
    The way Chrome feasts on RAM, might need the cloud for that too.
    KellyCriterion · 1790862087 · focus · HN ↗
    Honestly, FF became similar worse: On my 16 GB machine, when surfing some hours FF has allocated around 10-11 GB and for whatever reason it does not free them, unless I exit and restart it
    kalleboo · 1790911336 · focus · HN ↗
    Even Safari is gobbling up RAM these days, I think it's just all the JavaScript code on the web is pure garbage, and what was bad enough before is getting even worse with all the vibeslop coding going on now.
    Garbage collected languages and seemingly unlimited virtual memory encourage developers to not even think about memory allocation any more, so memory usage for a tab that's left open just grows and grows.

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