WTF is up with RAM? (With Will Smith from The Tech Pod)

RAM costs have gone wild, largely because of AI. On this episode, Devindra chats with Will Smith (Brad and Will Made a Tech Pod) in regards to the state of the RAM trade, in addition to different {hardware} we anticipate to get dearer. (SSD costs are positively creeping up too!). Additionally, we talk about Meta poaching Alan Dye, one in all Apple’s design executives, and what this might imply for Meta’s upcoming gadgets. And sure, no matter they’ve subsequent will doubtless revolve round AI.

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Subjects

• Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, plans deep cuts to his firm’s metaverse growth – 1:09

• Longtime Apple UI designer Alan Dye to affix Meta’s AI division – 7:08

• US DOT cuts gas effectivity requirements, doubles down on gasoline automobiles – 25:40

• Waymo autonomous automobiles not too long ago began driving extra aggressively – 31:30

• Amazon halts its anime dub beta as a result of it sounded horrible – 38:00

• WTF, RAM?? Will Smith joins to speak about why RAM costs are spiraling upward – 44:05

• Round Engadget: Metroid Prime 4 is a return to type after 18 years on ice – 1:04:42

• Popular culture picks – 1:08:32

Credit

Host: Devindra Hardawar
Visitor: Will Smith
Producer: Ben Ellman
Music: Dale North and Terrence O’Brien