Honestly I would have been surprised if they came to save the day, why would they subvention our broken economic system? If they ever enter the market (outside China) I doubt they would undercut memory suppliers that much.
Hard to say, cuz they were kinda pre-committed to this strategy by always casting themselves as the more private option (vs Google) and eagerly adopting unified memory and heterogeneous SoCs.
I do think they kind of lucked into it by focusing on SoC and unified memory before LLMs got big, and now they are really well positioned for running local models like Qwen.
Absolutely, but hard to say if they'll manage to benefit much from that position. I'm really curious what the specs (...and price...) of the iPhone 18 will be.
That's the big question, cause I doubt there's going to be huge demand for phones that cost a couple of grand in this economy. The fact that Apple's been trying to secure RAM deals in China suggests they realize they need to keep prices down. We'll have to see how it works out for them.
That’s the big question, cause I doubt there’s going to be huge demand for phones that cost a couple of grand in this economy.
if the people i know who who place maintaining iphone ownership above being able to afford rent or food are any indication; apple will be fine no matter what the economy is like.
Coral and others had this figured out before Apple. Not to downplay the significant effect they will have, but it was clear from the first little text and image classification pop after deep dream that the technology would bifurcate into little ml that runs on phones and computers and big ml that they use to trade watt hours in rural areas.
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onlinepersona@programming.dev · 14 pts · 26d
More competition is good. Don't buy Dell anyway, it's garbage.
Hopefully there will be other RAM manufacturers that spring up.
ms_lane@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 26d
It's a real shame German politicians allowed/got paid to force Qimonda to die.
onlinepersona@programming.dev · 3 pts · 26d
Hadn't heard of it, but it seems like they were abandoned when they needed help the most. Germany didn't realise what they had.
B0rax@feddit.org · 6 pts · 26d
As is tradition… if it doesn’t have 4 wheels, politicians don’t care.
NanoooK@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 26d
Too bad for us.
NewOldGuard@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 26d
That still helps the rest of the world because it reduces demand on the existing oligopoly of memory manufacturers
CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 26d
Honestly I would have been surprised if they came to save the day, why would they subvention our broken economic system? If they ever enter the market (outside China) I doubt they would undercut memory suppliers that much.
kibiz0r@midwest.social · 4 pts · 26d
Apple is about to pop the AI bubble with this and indirectly save the PC build market.
yogthos@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 26d
They seem to have had the foresight to realize that this tech will quickly move to edge devices.
kibiz0r@midwest.social · 3 pts · 26d
Hard to say, cuz they were kinda pre-committed to this strategy by always casting themselves as the more private option (vs Google) and eagerly adopting unified memory and heterogeneous SoCs.
yogthos@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 26d
I do think they kind of lucked into it by focusing on SoC and unified memory before LLMs got big, and now they are really well positioned for running local models like Qwen.
CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 26d
Absolutely, but hard to say if they'll manage to benefit much from that position. I'm really curious what the specs (...and price...) of the iPhone 18 will be.
yogthos@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 26d
That's the big question, cause I doubt there's going to be huge demand for phones that cost a couple of grand in this economy. The fact that Apple's been trying to secure RAM deals in China suggests they realize they need to keep prices down. We'll have to see how it works out for them.
eldavi@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 26d
if the people i know who who place maintaining iphone ownership above being able to afford rent or food are any indication; apple will be fine no matter what the economy is like.
yogthos@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 26d
lol there is that demographic for sure
TrollAccount69@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 26d
Coral and others had this figured out before Apple. Not to downplay the significant effect they will have, but it was clear from the first little text and image classification pop after deep dream that the technology would bifurcate into little ml that runs on phones and computers and big ml that they use to trade watt hours in rural areas.