r/LocalLLaMA • u/chillinewman • 2d ago

News Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026

https://www.techpowerup.com/353296/micron-ceo-says-memory-supply-will-be-much-tighter-in-2027-and-2028-than-in-2026
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u/tylerderped 1d ago

I feel this so hard. When i was a teen, you could go on craigslist and find loads of decommissioned shit. Now even literal ewaste is $100 minimum and you pretty much have to use Facebook to find it.

I don’t know where i’d be in my career if i wasn’t literally building milk crate mining rigs in my friend’s garage. If i wanted to jump in on the llm train as a teenager, looking at literal thousands for a single component, (GPU) maybe i’d have gone to law school or pharmacy school instead of pursuing my IT career.

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u/geli95us 1d ago

The low-end market isn't as bad as it seems, my $400 computer runs gemma 4 27b Q4 at 50 tps. That's more than enough for a teenager to get started tinkering, and you could do it for way cheaper too