Sam Altman says RAM should be in data centers, not personal computers

What happened?

1. Sam Altman said on the Cheeky Pint podcast that it is "quite terrible" to have "everybody have a bunch of the world's limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer and being used five percent of the time," The Verge reports.
2. According to The Verge, Samsung and SK Hynix have signed long-term agreements with cloud providers and initiatives such as OpenAI's Stargate, which have booked a large share of global RAM production for the coming years.
3. The FRVR blog post reports memory manufacturer Micron announced its departure from consumer memory production and described AI datacenter demand as "essential" compared with consumer use.
4. The FRVR blog post reports Altman said OpenAI is designing a custom AI processor called Jalapeno.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on the Cheeky Pint podcast that it is "quite terrible" for consumers to hold much of the world's limited DRAM supply in PCs used around five percent of the time, arguing cloud data centers deliver higher utilization. The reports also describe rising device prices, including a PlayStation price increase and an Xbox ROG handheld priced at $1,300.

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