> in 10-15 years, we are going to have consumer PCs (and phones!) running models doing pretty much anything that frontier models can do right now.

The way things are going with regards to RAM/storage prices, I highly doubt that anyone but the richest among us will be able to afford them.

The ram crisis is just a short term bump. The three stooges of memory don’t have more than four or five years tops. This is their last big payday.