Sam Altman calls DRAM sitting in personal computers 'terrible'

On the Cheeky Pint podcast, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said it is 'quite terrible' from a global allocation view that people hold a chunk of the world's limited DRAM in their own computers, used only 5% of the time. The remark comes amid the 'RAMpocalypse' as AI data centers drive up memory demand.

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