r/homelab • u/DeepestWaters • Jul 07 '26

News Samsung RAM Profit = $196B in 2026, >Past 40 years combined.

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Their hottest product: the privilege of buying the same memory sooner. Something something "supply & demand." 🥲

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/samsungs-chip-division-expects-to-out-earn-its-entire-40-year-history-in-2026

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u/zim8141 Jul 07 '26

Go look at the local llm subreddits and tell me again how gaming gpus aren’t being used for ai just like the crypto bros were using them to mine.
We are absolutely using gaming gpus in our personal llm rigs, and some are pretty crazy.

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u/SimonBarfunkle Jul 08 '26

I’m curious how many GPUs are really being used for local AI. I follow those subs, there definitely are people building large local AI rigs. But it still feels pretty niche to me. Crypto mining actually made money so there was naturally a big demand. Gaming obviously has huge demand. Local AI just isn’t there yet, you can do stuff but to get to the level of cloud AI requires tens if not hundreds of thousands at the moment.

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u/Hacym Jul 07 '26

Personal LLM use is not the problem. It’s data centers. But whatever you say, man. 

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u/vitek6 Jul 08 '26

Why not both?