Hyper scaling was always about cornering the computer market, It was never about providing us some vastly new and superior service.

They should be strung up. And middle management needs to return to fucking school.

It’s like Kyle Kulinski said “I’m starting to understand re-education camps now”

In a way it has actually.

Deepseek was big because not only did they publish the full model for everyone to use, but the MoE structure significantly brought down the hardware requirements in terms of processing power. As long as you have enough VRAM, you can run it on older hardware with no need for the latest Nvidia stuff.

Now they got v4 which many have found to be within a 10% margin of Claude and ChatGPT.

On top of that, China has cheapo VRAM GPUs available or soon to be released, like the MTT S80. Yeah it sucks as a Graphics card because the chip is behind, but you get 16Gb of GDDR6 for much cheaper than anything else.

But its not a conspiracy to fight China. The infinite scaling was just Nvidia solidifying themselves as the monopoly because they want all AI infrastructure to be dependent on them, which is why they still illegally export to China, despite an export ban attempting to reduce their potential competition.

Moore Threads (MTT) already has their own CUDA like system called MUSA, and I'm sure they'll be happy to put in proper hardware support for new stuff like Bf16 and FP8/4. It'll take a few years, but eventually China will catch up to the point where Nvidia gets shanked by cheaper hardware.

It turns out that off-shoring your economy to a political rival is a really dumb thing for a capitalist to do.

I bought a 2x16gb DDR4 kit for my home server just before it all went to shit. Feels good (though now I want to upgrade my gaming pc and I wish I had bought a DDR5 kit too)

Yeah but apparently GPUs are going up again 🤣...😭

Not really that crazy when you consider that the people in charge could have had a sweetheart deal with manufacturers in China, but they cut off all trade partners and all soft power channels, because they're drooling buffoons who won't accept that the US shifted to a global economy decades ago nor do they grasp how global economies work—mainly because they fired every expert under the pretense of "government waste."

All they know how to do is grift and defraud, and the chance to maintain global hegemony is long past. It's China's time, now, and they know it.

Just look at the EV's. The CEO of Ford was shocked about the quality and innovation of the Chinese cars. He's driving a Xiaomi SU7 and refuses to give it up. At least Canada is now free of the US chains and letting Chinese EV's in. The movement is unstoppable in the rest of the world. The only place resisting innovation is the US with its current regime.

Also crazy that a communist country would master capitalism.

It's been coming for a long time. While the rest of us have been fighting among ourselves, China stayed out of it all, and improved their country. I'm not surprised that they've emerged as a powerhouse, while we volunteered to give a lunatic the nukes.

Crazy how USA seems unable to keep up

The decline started by the 70s.

I do think of them.

You can try games from 20 or even 30 years ago. Plenty of bangers in any genre.

THIS QUARTER'S earnings reports. sigh

YMMV.

You gotta look up reviews. Both buyer track records, and focused reviews that look at what controller/NAND they use.

Many SSDs are basically the same as other brands internally. A few are wonky. It just depends.

It depends on the use case. I use teamgroup high capacity SSD drives for short load things on my homelab but they are super slow for any kind of extended writing due to a number of factors such as cache writes. I had to warranty two of 5 that died within a few weeks but it has been fine once the duds were replaced and they were easy about honoring the warranty.

Again, fine for a homelab but I wouldn't use them in my gaming rig where speed matters. For things like readimg of stored video and Linux isos, they work pretty good.

Memory includes SSDs. NAND flash chips for storage + small DRAM cache.

I'm guessing because China isn't producing the type of RAM they want. Put it this way, when the AI bubble bursts we aren't going to have a load of RAM and GPUs suddenly available, because the AI data centre versions aren't in a format that's useful in consumer tech, or even all the data centre systems. They are optimised towards AI workloads and don't really work in normal computer systems. Equally that means that if the RAM that's been produced isn't in this AI workload optimised format, then the data centres can't use it.

The crime isn't that the AI data centres we're using a bolt of the RAM, it was that the manufacturers were letting them by producing all their RAM in the required format.

I have some old Tupperware I could spare.