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Did Sam Altman buy out all gaming RAM?

• John23832 11mo ago
  OpenAI bought 40% of all wafers. So yes.
• wkat4242 11mo ago
  No, but the factory capacity and raw materials needed to make that gaming dram is now under higher demand to make stuff like gddrx and hbm.
• schmidtleonard 11mo ago
  If a Bond villain bought all of the oil in the Middle East, would it affect prices in the US? (Yes, of course it would.)
• rtkwe 11mo ago
  LLM models are voracious consumers of RAM for the top full power models so yes, not directly but they're all consuming massive amounts of the production capacity of memory makers it's impacting the 'gaming RAM' market too. They're not separate markets just because the end use is slightly different.
• Hamuko 11mo ago
  https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/openais-stargate-project-to-consume-up-to-40-percent-of-global-dram-output-inks-deal-with-samsung-and-sk-hynix-to-the-tune-of-up-to-900-000-wafers-per-month https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/openais-star...