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Zaranthos RAM company dreams of a future where self driving vehicles will require 18x the RAM current self driving vehicles have. Keep in mind Tesla puts 16GB of RAM in some models so people can play games in their car not because it's required for FSD. These companies are foaming at the mouth to charge exorbitant prices while hiding behind AI demand. Personally I quit buying Nvidia for just this reason. At some point the "need" to play the latest games is rather silly, especially when many of those games are polished turds. Reply
usertests Zaranthos said: RAM company dreams of a future where self driving vehicles will require 18x the RAM current self driving vehicles have. Keep in mind Tesla puts 16GB of RAM in some models so people can play games in their car not because it's required for FSD. These companies are foaming at the mouth to charge exorbitant prices while hiding behind AI demand. Personally I quit buying Nvidia for just this reason. At some point the "need" to play the latest games is rather silly, especially when many of those games are polished turds. If future self-driving cars actually need 300 GB, someone is paying for that. If you don't own the driverless car you're riding in, some big company has to pay for it. They would not want to pay more for RAM they don't need. But 300 GB of RAM should be relatively cheap… 15 years from now. The CEO is talking about a "20-year growth vector in robotics", so maybe the timing will work out. Reply
PSUpower It will be a rather akward development, when the RAM itself costs more than the rest of the vehicle :ROFLMAO: Reply
Notton Does Micron, or anyone else for that matter, have a new capacitor material that allows for sub 10nm? Because last time I checked, the major players hit a wall at 12nm-ish and that's the main limiting factor for printing more DRAM. Reply
usertests Notton said: Does Micron, or anyone else for that matter, have a new capacitor material that allows for sub 10nm? Because last time I checked, the major players hit a wall at 12nm-ish and that's the main limiting factor for printing more DRAM. 3D DRAM will be the next big thing in the 2030s. Reply
beyondlogic Admin said: Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra predicts that self-driving vehicles would require at least 300GB of RAM, meaning increasing demand could drive another memory chip shortage as these cars are essentially AI supercomputers on wheels. Micron predicts that cars will need 300GB of RAM — memory-laden vehicles could exacerbate shortages but create 'robust long-term growth in automoti… : Read more Or we could you know learn to drive cars more safely imagine going to the garage because your self driving ai car has a ram corruption or just dies lol Reply
Zaranthos usertests said: If future self-driving cars actually need 300 GB, someone is paying for that. If you don't own the driverless car you're riding in, some big company has to pay for it. They would not want to pay more for RAM they don't need. But 300 GB of RAM should be relatively cheap… 15 years from now. The CEO is talking about a "20-year growth vector in robotics", so maybe the timing will work out. If we're talking 20 year predictions then it's likely RAM in the current context would replace flash memory. It's likely in that kind of time frame current RAM will be a floppy drive. Technology in 20 years won't look anything like it does now. If AI is even remotely successful technology will leap forward pretty rapidly. Reply
usertests beyondlogic said: Or we could you know learn to drive cars more safely imagine going to the garage because your self driving ai car has a ram corruption or just dies lol "Just teach people to drive safely" isn't a solution. Theoretically, self-driving cars never get distracted and can respond faster than any human, and better response time means more time to slow down and better survival rate. They also don't need parking most of the time if they are dropping you off and leaving to pick someone else up. Now the reality of self-driving cars could fall short of the vision, but if they work, road deaths will be cut considerably. Any car could die. For RAM, they should be using ECC. Reply
beyondlogic usertests said: "Just teach people to drive safely" isn't a solution. Theoretically, self-driving cars never get distracted and can respond faster than any human, and better response time means more time to slow down and better survival rate. They also don't need parking most of the time if they are dropping you off and leaving to pick someone else up. Now the reality of self-driving cars could fall short of the vision, but if they work, road deaths will be cut considerably. Any car could die. For RAM, they should be using ECC. Only works if every car is self driving currently in my opinion trade of ain't worth it unless in future there's self driving lanes like any program a ai car still has issues phantom breaking/ still struggles with driver takeovers. Even fully driverless cars have minor accidents. Reply
ezst036 It would not require that much RAM if they didn't build in spyware. Reply
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