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Re:Samsung's 60% DRAM Price Hike Signals a New Phase of Glob... by justin66 on Saturday November 22, 2025 @11:59AM (#46016162)
Congrats on engaging with the facetious part of my comment, but I think the question still stands: do you think the current level of AI-driven data center demand will continue indefinitely?

I feel like the question of how many computers are needed to steer a bunch of self-driving taxis probably has an answer, and I bet it's not anything even remotely close to what would justify a decade's worth of maximum investment in silicon for AI data centers, which is what we were talking about.

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Re:Samsung's 60% DRAM Price Hike Signals a New Phase of Glob... by lazide on Saturday November 22, 2025 @01:07PM (#46016815)
Data center AI is also completely uninteresting/non-useful for self driving Taxis, or any other self driving vehicle.
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Re:Samsung's 60% DRAM Price Hike Signals a New Phase of Glob... by lukeschlather on Sunday November 23, 2025 @03:05AM (#46021667)
Do you know comparatively how much GPU time training the models which run Waymo costs compared to Gemini? I'm genuinely curious, my assumption would be that Google has devoted at least as much GPU time in their datacenters to training Waymo models as they have Gemini models. But if it's significantly more efficient on training (or inference?) that's very interesting.
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Re:Samsung's 60% DRAM Price Hike Signals a New Phase of Glob... by lazide on Sunday November 23, 2025 @10:55AM (#46024459)
My note is specifically for operating them. Training the models, certainly can help.
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Re:Samsung's 60% DRAM Price Hike Signals a New Phase of Glob... by blackqueeriroh on Monday November 24, 2025 @01:12AM (#46030870)
A decade is far from indefinitely.
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