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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on a podcast that it is 'quite terrible' for people to keep RAM in their own PCs when that memory could go into AI data centers, which he argued offer better utilization.
The remark frames the memory shortage as a competition between consumer devices and AI data centers for DRAM and HBM supply, which could keep memory prices elevated for longer.
Trade pressSlicast · October 30, 2026 at 16:28 UTC · Global · Source: Tom's Hardware
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