Of course there is still demand for RAM and SIMD compute!

But also hoarding hardware in glorified warehouses is not the genius business idea everyone thinks it is.

I'm assuming his friend's finance company is planning to make use of the cloud compute they find in some finance workload.

I don't think they're buying GPUs outright to store in a warehouse.

dist-epoch 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Any sort of hardware produced in the last 5 years has at least doubled in price. Some, like RAM are 3-5x more expensive.

So whoever hoarded it in warehouses could sell it now immediately for at least 100% profit.

They seem like geniuses to me now, worst case they make 100% profit on the investment.

	▲	ahartmetz an hour ago \| parent [-]
		It's only RAM, mass storage and GPUs. Desktop CPUs, mainboards, PSUs, and cases have become cheaper because PC building demand has declined. Peripheral prices have remained largely unchanged.

tourmalinetaco 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Naturally; it should be hoarded in my glorified homelab, where I can more readily listen to the sweet purr of fans.

41353aab an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

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