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  "channel_slug": "LocalLLaMA",
  "channel_handle": "r/LocalLLaMA",
  "title": "Do you think dedicated hardware for running local LLMs will become affordable anytime soon?",
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1uce2pz/do_you_think_dedicated_hardware_for_running_local/",
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  "upload_date": "20260622",
  "published_at": "2026-06-22T07:42:02+00:00",
  "transcript": "Models like qwen 27b dense have already proved to be useful coding/general purpose assistants, but issue is still with hardware even the entry level hardware is relatively expensive, would we be getting hardware specifically built for inference for consumers at affordable price and what would be the approximate timeline, \n\nwhat about Chinese manufacturers they are good producing low cost hardware at scale, I know they are facing issues regarding chip fabrication and memory along with low level software issues but the market they can capture is huge, so what's your opinion on this?\n\n\n\n--- Top Comments ---\n\n\n[58 upvotes] Yes because IBM and AMD want a piece of the CUDA pie.\n\nAnd everyone in the industry wants to get rid of the price inflation. \n\nThing is it's cause by both a software monopoly as well as a general market crunch as cloud data centers are built out.\n\nIf Cloud AI has a market correction and stops being funded off hopes and dreams we will.\n\n[58 upvotes] No\n\n[30 upvotes] The market price is regulated by supply and demand. Currently:\n\n* **everybody** would like to get fast local inference -> high demand\n* **one company** (Nvidia) is providing fast local inference -> low supply\n\nThere are hundreds of startups trying to build fast inference hardware - but most of them are not there yet...\n\nBecause no one can predict the future we don't know for how long the demand will be higher than supply.\n\nI guess, that in the next 1-5 years we will see many new products optimized for AI inference and I hope that some of these products will be affordable and fast enough for consumers...\n\n[20 upvotes] No. Datacenter boom ruined it for at least a few years.\n\nIf I were in your situation, I really wouldn't worry about it right now; and I'd just focus on saving up money.  It's what I did basically all last year, and I caught the last chopper out of 'Nam (128GB RAM + 24GB VRAM) literally right before the huge RAM & SSD hikes.\n\nIf you stay patient, the hardware will be better or cheaper in a few years + the models will be better and more efficient.  Just gotta be a disciplined saver tho.\n\n*tl;dr - sell high, buy low*",
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