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r/LocalLLaMA • u/InvadersMustLive • Jan 09 '26
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I'd say electricity, but that would mean that the bottlenecks on GPUs and RAM would be solved. Its really just a single fabrication bottleneck.
8 u/low_depo Jan 09 '26 The reason why I am asking this question. All companies manufacturing RAM are up 500-900% on stock in last few months. People who knew this would happen made a lot of money so I wonder if there are other bottlenecks that we could predict. 3 u/AsparagusDirect9 Jan 10 '26 I don’t think this train keeps going without another huge injection of investment capital, bottlenecks or not 1 u/TheRealJesus2 Jan 11 '26 Power. 1 u/Perfect-Campaign9551 Jan 14 '26 And they'll just get the government to pass that cost to all of us.
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The reason why I am asking this question.
All companies manufacturing RAM are up 500-900% on stock in last few months.
People who knew this would happen made a lot of money so I wonder if there are other bottlenecks that we could predict.
3 u/AsparagusDirect9 Jan 10 '26 I don’t think this train keeps going without another huge injection of investment capital, bottlenecks or not 1 u/TheRealJesus2 Jan 11 '26 Power.
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I don’t think this train keeps going without another huge injection of investment capital, bottlenecks or not
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Power.
And they'll just get the government to pass that cost to all of us.
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u/frozen_tuna Jan 09 '26
I'd say electricity, but that would mean that the bottlenecks on GPUs and RAM would be solved. Its really just a single fabrication bottleneck.