No just posing facts that your links do not say what you think they say.

Having a large screen is not the problem. Having a large screen that is the only UI to everything is the problem. Single point of failure is increasing becoming a problem. In decades past if my radio/CD player went out, it is annoying but other things like A/C still function. If that screen goes out, then everything is unreachable.

Then there is the second problem that a touchscreen UI is a terrible interface for drivers. Add to that car manufacturers are not the best when it comes to designing computer UIs.

And that's if everything functions correctly. From what I've seen with existing large screens is that there are still maddeningly random glitches. I need to turn on the rear defrost. The rest of the functions like A/C, fan, etc had icons in a nice row . Rear defrost was labeled "Rear" away from all the other functions. I pressed the screen to turn it on. It was "on" for a second. Then turned itself off. I had to press it again. Then it stayed on.

This article says specifically one SKHynix plant will make NAND which *may* help the SSD shortage while the other one will make HBM for AI datacenters which will not help consumers. The *may* is because the NAND might just go to AI datacenters too.

Micron is making a new NAND plant. The product may go to consumer SSDs or AI datacenters.

This article does not detail what Samsung is making in these new plants other than "chips". It may be for CPUs/GPUs/AI chips. It could be HDBM or DDR5 RAM; it could be NAND.

No ONE knows except the companies. That's the point. For someone declared it is $2-$3 without any evidence. Retail pricing is the worst cast estimate at $14-$19.

I'll have you know I want internet speeds that can be replaced by carrier pigeon for redundancy purposes. Now get off my lawn.

Really? So what you're saying is people who are dealing with higher prices for everything including food are not concerned about rising water and electricity costs? I would disagree on that point.

There were really only 3 DRAM manufacturers before this crisis. AI bought out nearly all of the production capacity to make HBM instead of DDR5. Some Chinese companies are now starting to make DRAM but they simply do not make enough. It turns out making even DRAM is hard.

All you have to do is start a chip foundry plant and start cranking out DRAM. It's just that easy.

There four things that happened.

1. AI bought out all the capacity of RAM companies so that they shifted away from making DDR5 chips
2. Micron realized it would have zero DDR5 so it closed its Crucial brand because it would not have any product to sell.
3. All other DIMM modules like Kingston and Corsair makers have very little DDR5 chips to make DIMM modules.

And you say I'm dishonest by talking about the whole picture while you stay hyper-fixated on only Micron closing down Crucial. Ignoring the other facts shows YOUR dishonetsy.

Omitting the fact that the Micron, SK Hynix, and Samsung shifted to HBM is dishonest.

That is a lie. What part of Micron, SK Hynix, and Samsung has shifted most of their production to HBM is unclear to you?

What part of the RAM companies have shifted to HBM is unclear to you? You keep repeating the same lie.

Please. I worked in the chip business. Your arrogance is you think you know more than someone who worked in the industry..

You said: "There won't be any unsold HBM," That is another lie. There are always product that remains unsold in the production pipeline at any given time unless you have zero clue about the manufacturing process. Product is not "sold" until the customer pays for it. The customer does not pay for it until they have it. It's that simple.

Citation needed.

Citation needed.

That is a lie. Average RAM prices did not drop in April.

DIMM makers like Kingston and G.SKILL have a large part of their business selling DIMMs. You seem to ignore that part.

1) What part of the RAM companies shifted production to HBM is difficult for you to understand? 2) If you think it's that easy why are all the DIMM manufacturers struggling?

Your entire premise has been to deny the basic fact. "Micron, SK Hynix, and Samsung shifted their production to HBM." You think everything is easy to change and fix somehow. Yet no one has done the easy fix you suggested. Do you think there may be a reason for that.

I think people forget who Nine PBS is. They are a non-profit TV station. I would imagine they do not have a lot of money or expertise when it comes to IT. Yes they should have had a better strategy but frankly most people and companies do not. We on this forum know better, but many of our own relatives do not. Frankly I can only advise; I refuse to be IT support for entire family.

No, Comcast says it is opt-in. I am skeptical until someone analyzes one of these devices to make sure. I do not put it past Comcast to turn it on and immediately start selling the data but never tell the customer. Or it was activated "by mistake" in a firmware update.

You wrote: "That's not how RAM works. One RAM packager simply stopped putting it on DIMMs, that's all there is to it." 1) That is not factually true. The situation is not one RAM packager stopped manufacturing DDR5 DIMM modules; the situation is all 3 RAM chip companies cut back dramatically on making DDR5 chips. 2) The entire topic is about RAM not computer hardware in general.

And that is true. Micron announced end the entire Crucial brand which includes memory and SSDs.

The problem here is you treated this fact as THE ONLY fact. The fact of the matter is Micron, SK Hynix, and Samsung shifted production to HBM. Micron stopped making Crucial because they have no DDR5 to sell under their own Crucial brand. The other thing which you omitted or don't know is Micron, SK Hynix, and Samsung sold DDR5 chips to other companies like Corsair, Kingston, G.Skill, etc to make their DDR5 DIMM modules. Why would you omit that basic fact?

1) You assuming that RAM pops into existence from foundry to immediately being used in a datacenter. There is a concept called lead time with production, shipping, customs, etc. 2) Future orders does not mean all the orders are fully paid upfront. Many companies only pay a portion of a contract when signing then fully pay when the product is delivered. Even then payment is due 30, 60, 90 days after invoice. If AI goes bankrupt, what happens to the HBM memory that is in production, being shipped, received by the datacenter but never paid. That is unsold HBM despite your declaration that it does not exist.

The RAM business relies on thin margins. Always has. You are assuming all the brands will survive not having a major portion of their product line to sell for a year or more. Micron closed their own Crucial because they knew the brand could not survive. Unless the other DIMM makers get loans or other cash infusions, they are in serious financial trouble.

The distinction is the RAM companies switched to manufacturing HBM for AI servers instead of DDR5 for desktops/general servers. The only other platform that uses HBM would be the Top 500 supercomputers. HBM is not physically compatible with DDR5.

The point being made is if there is a crash of HBM demand and all of the sudden there is lots of HBM memory, that does not mean consumers nor companies can just use HBM in their MBs.

The more practical scenario is DDR5 modules with HBM. Retrofitting motherboards to use HBM directly is unlikely as redesigning motherboards will take more time. If there is a crash of HBM demand, it may be only a year before the RAM companies switch back to DDR5. A motherboard redesign will take longer and those MBs will always require HBM going forward which will limit their upgradeability.

No, that is exactly what happened. The RAM companies were given lots of money to make HBM not desktop/server DDR5. If there is a glut of unsold HBM, it is not likely that HBM can be used in desktops and servers.

You do know the strategy of EEE and HOW to use EEE are different things, right? Using DRM to enforce EEE is what MS has done and will do. I can think of no better way of tying software that only MS controls than DRM and authentication servers.

I understand what it is. You act as if IMPLEMENTATION does not exist. I suggest you look up what that means.

And you seem to forget that rules are different for Microsoft and others that do not hold monopoly power.

MS already did it. That destroys your point.

They never stopped doing it. Denial is not just a river in Egypt. They just don't get away with it as much.