Comment by danaris
8 days ago
But if the demand drops for six months, the manufacturers are going to scale back production.
If it drops for a year, they're likely to start shedding capacity, one way or another.
This is not an equivalent situation. The vast, vast majority of what's being produced for this bubble is going to be waste once it pops.
I guess you could at least mine the boards from defunct AI companies for memory chips ? Latest videos from Gamers Nexus showed it is apparently not that hard to transfer memory chips from board to board.
Then you can leach precious metals from the PCB itself.
Yes, but if they weren't overproduced and then either run into the ground or left waiting for demand that would never come, then wouldn't those memory chips and precious metals all still be more available than otherwise...?
I mean, sure, yes, we can try to recycle waste products—but it's still less wasteful not to produce them unnecessarily in the first place.
Agreed, but basic things like sanity seem to have left this hype cycle long ago.
Thankfully real world and physics has the final word, so we can at least plan what to do once the whole thing runs into a wall of reality & make the best of the wreckage.