TV and audio tech will get hit with price hikes in 2026 due to the AI-led memory shortage — here's what's going on
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Price rises could be coming for all AV tech, and budget models may get hit hardest
  • The AI-driven memory shortage doesn’t just affect PCs
  • More capacity is coming, but not before 2027
  • Low-margin budget products are likely to be hit hardest
  • ViscloReader@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    2 months ago

    That’s the thing I keep telling people around me. It’s not only RAM. Too many critical components have ram.

    If you increase RAM, you increase computer prices. (And I’m talking ALL kinds of computer, from microcomputers to desktop to servers)

    If you increase computer prices you increase costs for almost everything

    • kameecoding@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      I was thinking how this will affect cars, all of them have a bigass tablet in the middle nowadays

        • GamingChairModel@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          2 months ago

          90GB of both RAM+NAND combined. I’m guessing most of it is actual persistent storage for all the stuff the infotainment system uses (including imagery and offline map data for GPS, which is probably a big one), rather than actual memory in the sense of desktop computing.

  • coherent_domain@infosec.pubEnglish
    6·
    2 months ago

    Question: will AI eventually hurt CPUs? Like memory companies, the TSMC also only have finite production capacity.

  • solrize@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    2 months ago

    Why do TV’s and audio gear use memory? TV’s ok I can sort of understand a little, but audio? That’s still analog right? Or anyway mostly analog.

    • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Depends on if you have analog cabled headphones, like the Meze Empyrians or the Philips X2HR Fidelio, then they are analog, but wireless or even digital headphones with USB/Lightning has ram.

    • UnspecificGravity@piefed.socialEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      This is probably all like stand-alone Bluetooth speakers and such that have little processors in them. Analog hifi shit isn’t going be able to use AI for anything except maybe receivers or something. I guess there might be a use case for using it to balance to a room and set up EQ or something, but these guys don’t seem interested in doing anything that would require actual work to develop a real product.