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  "title": "What do you think is the long term solution and/or endgame of this RAM crisis? Asking here, because I am pro-AI.",
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1vvwfbq/what_do_you_think_is_the_long_term_solution_andor/",
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  "upload_date": "20260823",
  "published_at": "2026-08-23T03:40:29+00:00",
  "transcript": "Most discussions about RAM crisis are futile because people just get on the bandwagon and blame everything on AI and the supposed bubble.\n\nI want some more nuanced take on the situation.\n\nThe RAM crisis is actively hurting tech-enthusiast people like me, at the same time I cannot foresee any solution to this problem. The demand for RAMs would increase even more as we get closer to AGI.\n\n\n\n--- Top Comments ---\n\n\n[63 upvotes] the only true solution is building more fabs, until supply eventually can fulfill demand again. but this unfortunately might take over a decade. \n\nPreviously, RAM was basically dumped into a lot of super low-margin products that didn't create much value... every cheap new smartphone that billions of people replaced every 2 years got to the point of having at least 6 GB RAM etc. This will stop for the foreseeable future. No cheap phone upgrades every 2 years any more. a phone can work with 2 GB RAM as well if you don't mind some lags here and there, and people will have to get used to that. it will be a weird decade of consumer electronics becoming worse in that regard, but in the end it really doesn't make anyone's life truly worse if his phone lags a bit, so people will accept it.\n\ndatacenters will stay the highest-value and thus biggest-bidder customer for RAM for a long time, and only once we reach the point where AI usage grows slower than new fabs coming online, RAM can be allocated to consumer electronics again at acceptable prices.\n\n[30 upvotes] We don't know because we are not certain what will happen.\n\nMaybe some ground breaking research will come out tomorrow, making AI 100x more memory efficient, and making purchasing more memory not worth the money.\n\n[18 upvotes] Micron has sold put all the capacity for 2027. Right now they are selling their future 2028 production and as they know everything will sell, they are doing it for a very high price.\n\nSo dont expect it to change anytime soon. For every day that passes, they are selling more days of their future production. The future availability just looks worse every day, there is no light in sight.",
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