AI Is Insatiable

While browsing our website a few weeks ago, I stumbled upon “ How and When the Memory Chip Shortage Will End ” by Senior Editor Samuel K. Moore. His analysis focuses on the current DRAM shortage caused by AI hyperscalers’ ravenous appetite for memory, a major constraint on the speed at which large language models run. Moore provides a clear explanation of the shortage, particularly for high bandwidth memory (HBM). As we and the rest of the tech media have documented, AI is a resource hog. AI ele