While the article focuses specifically on memory prices, the AI boom could also cause PC CPU and GPU prices to go up which affects everyone. Currently fabrication at TSMC and Samsung are limited with companies like NVidia and AMD booking orders years in advance. To chase profits, NVidia and AMD will shift more of their orders to AI chips if they haven't already done so. That means fewer consumer CPUs and GPUs and thus higher prices for consumers as there may be shortages.

I don't see how it would help the situation to buy cheaper phones. The issue is RAM prices are going up. That affects expensive flagship and cheap phones alike. In fact, you may not be able to buy a cheap phone as manufacturers are going to prioritize selling the flagship phones first as that gains them the most profit.

I don't know where you live but where I live we have these things called "hills" where a Kei car might struggle. Especially when I have these other things called "friends" in the car with me. Back in high school, I had a Toyota Corolla which is larger than Kei cars. The first time I was driving with friends up a moderate hill, they were surprised when I turned off the AC so I could get enough HP to maintain speed up the hill. Because suddenly slowing down in lanes with 18 wheelers and huge ass trucks is what some would call "dangerous."

That's not the main reason. Kei cars are meant for specific purposes and destinations. The trucks are meant to be light duty work trucks first and commuting second. The cars are meant for commuting in densely packed urban environments. In Japan and other countries, there are specific regulations for them. Since they were made for specific countries, this is why pass they don't pass safety requirements of US roads.

Conforming to existing safety regulations would be a challenge, and it would be require Congress to write new legislation written just for them. Personally, I would advocate Kei trucks being built as farms, large factories, warehouses, etc could use them, and many that have been imported for that purpose. For example, a Kei truck could easily haul a round bale of hay. If it gets stuck in the mud, just get a few people and lift it out. :P

That is a lie. The Mx series chips use both software AND hardware for emulation. Specifically Mx chips have memory assist circuitry that assist in translating x86 memory instructions. Rosetta 2 software is still needed to make it work but without the hardware, it would be slow and inefficient.

Your argument is that somehow Apple was one of the few to have "insanely fucking fast" software emulation for x86. Seriously? Of all the past open source and proprietary software attempts at x86 emulation, Apple just happens to build fast emulation on their first try. OR being vertically integrated, Apple incorporated some hardware assist at the chip level to help them as they design their own chips?

The topic is emulation. You: NO TRUE SCOTSMAN!!!

So you admit using fallacious arguments and then get angry when people point that out to you. Your argument is gaming companies should ignore devices that generate twice the revenue of PC games because you call anything not PC gaming, "niche".

Dell and HP disabled HEVC support on $1500 laptops like the Latitude 7350 and 600 Series G11. That is not the moral of the story.

By "minor", since the M1 was released, it routinely beats Intel machines even on x86 software. While the M series is handled by Rosetta, all M chips have some hardware translation. That is pretty much a fact you are unwilling to acknowledge.

Sure if your denialism wants to ignore that mobile gaming is twice as large as PC gaming in terms of revenue. In fact PC at 22% of the market would be considered "niche" compared to mobile and then consoles. Which processor does most mobile gaming support: ARM. How much of mobile gaming is x86: nearly 0%.

Only in your unwillingness to recognize a market worth $103B in 2025 compared to PC's $39.9B. But what are facts?

Only in your No True Scotsman arguments and denialism. ARM represents more than 55% of the gaming market. You however will never admit it.

There is a middle ground. Apple and Qualcomm have released ARM CPUs with some hardware x86 translation like the entire Mx line up and the new Snapdragon X series chips.

I wouldn't call ARM a niche platform considering many consumers probably own more than one ARM device and fewer of them own an X86 device these days. Gaming is one of the last strongholds of X86 only software but with efforts like this, that may change.

The Bobs: "I see you worked for Mark Zuckerberg at one point."
Me: "I wouldn't say I 'worked' for him, Bob"

If Zuckerberg rolled a truck full of money to my house to change jobs, I wouldn't say no. I would however take the attitude of Peter Gibbons from Office Space though: Cleaning fish at my desk, etc.

Citation needed. While I don't doubt Intel got rid of older workers, the main reason is that newer, younger workers are cheaper. The fact they were old white men is more an artifact of the system where Intel hired mostly white men to be engineers decades ago.

It literally says in the very first sentence of the government page on CAFE: "NHTSA's Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards regulate how far our vehicles must travel on a gallon of fuel. NHTSA sets CAFE standards for passenger cars and for light trucks (collectively, light-duty vehicles), and separately sets fuel consumption standards for medium- and heavy-duty trucks and engines."

How did this blatant misinformation get marked as "Informative", I'll never know..

You mean MS has outsourced QA to AI. I would think volunteers would have found that issue quickly.

Depends on what "preview” means. If it means an alpha build meant to be internal, such a bug is fine. To me this build was meant to be shown and tested by customers and closer to a beta build. Nothing ruins testing like the inability to test anything.

One time my company was asked to test some software for a supplier. The software would not run after install on any of our computers. There were no errors displayed to give us hints about what could be wrong. Despite weeks of correspondence with their development team, we could never get the software to run. After the testing period was over, they sent us a questionnaire. Unfortunately we could not answer most of the questions as we could never get it to run. One final question was about the readiness of the software for production. We said the software was not ready for production.

The development team was not happy about that and emailed asking for reasons why we said that. I assume their supervisors read the questionnaire responses. We told them that any software that would not work after weeks of correspondence and no hint about what to fix was not production ready. They responded they had since fixed all installation issues in the latest version. We answered back that we could only test the version we were given and that version did not work.

I did not say that. The OP specifically said there were no "Unix desktops." Read the thread.