Sam Altman weighs in on the world's RAM supply crunch
GREATD4NNY · reddit · 2026-11-04
A Reddit post shares a video of Sam Altman discussing the world's RAM supply. As AI datacenter demand drives a global DRAM shortage, the OpenAI CEO publicly addressing memory supply underscores that RAM has become a critical bottleneck for AI compute expansion, alongside GPUs.
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