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topspinyesterday at 11:00 PM1 replyview on HN

> how do you get them off the shelf if you also need TB of memory

You make products for well capitalized wireless operators that can afford the prevailing cost of the hardware they need. For these operations, the increase in RAM prices is not a major factor in their plans: it's a marginal cost increase on some of the COTS components necessary for their wireless system. The specialized hardware they acquire in bulk is at least an order of magnitude more expensive than server RAM.

Intel will sell every one of these CPUs and the CPUs will end up in dual CPU SMP systems fully populated with 1-2 TB of DDR5-8000 (2-4GB/core, at least) as fast as they can make them.


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cyanydeeztoday at 12:01 PM

I do likr the idea that capitalism can always ignore the broader base of consumers and just raise prices. Eventually, therell only be one viagra pill bought by trillionaires at 1$ million dollars.

God bless capitalism.