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This Week in Mobile Games - The Years Start Walkin' and They Don't Stop Walkin'

That RAM shortage going to raise PC and laptop costs too.

As to Genshin Impact, looks like a beautiful game, but how does it play. Is it closer to a PC game than a true Mobile game. Like how the PC game X-COM 2, is a fantastic port to a mobile device. So does Genshin Impact have the 'meat' of a PC game, but plays just as good on your Smart Phone or Tablet.

That RAM shortage going to raise PC and laptop costs too.

As to Genshin Impact, looks like a beautiful game, but how does it play. Is it closer to a PC game than a true Mobile game. Like how the PC game X-COM 2, is a fantastic port to a mobile device. So does Genshin Impact have the 'meat' of a PC game, but plays just as good on your Smart Phone or Tablet.

Micron exiting the consumer market entirely in favor of supplying data centers already sent a message that regular customers are too small to matter, but I think we're getting to a point where even companies with millions of dollars to use are also too small to matter in the face of ones that can show up to a supplier and say, "I'll take it all right now."

Greed1914 wrote:

Micron exiting the consumer market entirely in favor of supplying data centers already sent a message that regular customers are too small to matter, but I think we're getting to a point where even companies with millions of dollars to use are also too small to matter in the face of ones that can show up to a supplier and say, "I'll take it all right now."

I think the thing that bugs me with all of this and the thing that I'm watching incredibly closely is that with all this energy frothing around in the AI industry.... What happens if the demand suddenly vanishes? Micron is not the type of company to hold on to supply for long periods of time. No corporation wants to do that.
The thing that scared Nintendo really badly during the Wii era was the sudden return of its stock of hardware, mostly from returns. They have had an obsession with controlling supply ever since, because they know that they'll be on the hook if there's ever too much of one thing on the market.

Right now, corporations like Micron are throwing caution to the wind because a bunch of people are rushing their doors with cash in hand and taking every single piece of silicon that they have. But a lot of these purchases are built on loans, which means that's not actual money that's being traded hands, it's basically an IOU with the expectation of wild profit at the end of it. We are already beginning to see that... There isn't much profit (if one can be found) right now. This can't go on forever and that's the thing that scares me the most, because I don't think people are prepared for that.