Sam Altman says Mac RAM is wasteful

In a recent interview, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman argued that it is wasteful for individual users to keep limited DRAM supplies in personal computers like Macs when that memory could be utilized by cloud-based AI infrastructure. The author argues that this perspective ignores the reality that major memory producers have already shifted production toward data center-grade components, leaving consumers to face soaring prices and constrained supplies driven largely by AI's demands. Open article →