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Monologue: Blame AI For Making Everything More Expensive

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In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs you through how AI is inflating the price of memory across the board by diverting fab capacity to building high bandwidth memory for GPUs, and how this situation may end in disaster for everyone involved.
GamersNexus: The DRAM Cartel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVzeHTlWIDY
HBM to increase 90% Year over Year - https://x.com/pequityresearch/status/2075035164833382909?s=46
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