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Posted by speckx 2 days ago

Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI(www.tomshardware.com)
293 points | 340 commentspage 5
Giorgi 2 days ago|
As an example?
kkfx 2 days ago||
...just as the kleptocrats wanted, to stop the spread of self-hosting and desktop computing now that society is tentatively starting to go digital.
eaf7e281 1 day ago||
Is now a good time to get a upgrade for cpu and motherboard?
TheRealPomax 2 days ago||
"Fueled by greed". It would be trivial to say no to AI companies because dollars are dollars, it doesn't matter who pays them, and prioritizing literally all of humanity instead of "five companies" is a choice that every single supplier could make, but decided not to. This problem was 100% manufactured by suppliers.
groby_b 1 day ago|
It would be equally "trivial" to say no to personal compute as well. So maybe the problem is manufactured by all of us.
TheRealPomax 17 hours ago||
A dollar is a dollar, and suppliers chose to screw over the world for not-even-profits: they would have sold the exact same number of chips if they changed how they prioritized delivery while making sure everyone got chips instead of just a handful of industries.

So, no: it's nothing like what you replied with and that was a rather dumb thing to say.

soupspaces 1 day ago||
"fueled by AI"
cap11235 2 days ago||
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SirFatty 2 days ago|
I can't speak to it now, but it used to be the go to source of CPU and 3D card benchmarking.
leecommamichael 2 days ago|||
They've turned into a pretty unserious, non-critical, non-hardcore ad page.
buellerbueller 1 day ago||
So, they're like an LLM?
unethical_ban 1 day ago|||
It's still my go-to. Their GPU benchmark pages are useful.
vittore 1 day ago||
poor Joe Rogan
foobar1274278 1 day ago|
Reminds me of how ever since egg prices went to the moon we've all had to give up dessert and subsist on thin gruel for breakfast.

What's that? Egg prices are back down after suppliers cranked up their output? Surely nothing like that is possible with hardware... Personal computing is dead forever...

lowbloodsugar 1 day ago||
That’s the issue: ram suppliers have not started building new fabs, which means they expect this demand to be temporary and they’re just going to make a killing on it while they can. It takes years to get a fab up, and they think demand will be gone by then. So that means ridiculous prices now, and if demand doesn’t drop, ridiculous prices until someone thinks the demand will continue for four more years after that moment. Whatever the moment, building for four years out is a risk. So this could last forever.
dist-epoch 1 day ago||
> SK Hynix to invest about $13 bln in a new South Korea plant to meet AI memory demand

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/sk-hynix-invest-a...

> SK Hynix has reportedly broken ground on a new advanced memory packaging facility in West Lafayette, Indiana, that should boost the supply of US-made high-bandwidth memory (HBM)

https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2026/04/22/sk-hynix-brea...

> Samsung to advance mega-fab expansion by 6 months to get ahead in capacity race; SK Hynix follows suit

https://www.kedglobal.com/korean-chipmakers/newsView/ked2026...

CamperBob2 1 day ago|||
It takes 5 months for a newly-hatched chicken to start laying eggs. It takes 5 years after breaking ground on a new fab to start producing chips.
ls612 1 day ago||
This will happen eventually but there is a much longer lag for hardware supply than for egg supply so I wouldn’t expect a ton of improvement until late 2027 or even 2028.