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Altman Calls PC RAM a Waste as Carmakers Fight for Older Memory Chips
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says DRAM sitting in personal computers is a waste of the world's scarce memory. Carmakers need that same memory, and the older DDR4 and LPDDR4 chips in most 2028 cockpit and driver assistance designs are expected to dry up from 2028. Ford now puts memory inside a $2 billion cost headwind. Who should get the chips, data centers, desktops or the cars that cannot borrow memory from the cloud?
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