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Message: [QUOTE="Geocide, post: 408011, member: 61037"] Somebody doesn't understand that silicone prices have skyrocketed in price (specifically solid state and RAM chips). SK Hynix AND Samsung are both dedicating almost all their spaces for making everything for AI companies, so both RAM and storage prices have shot through the roof (I would be 0% surprised if nearly half, if not more, of the cost of the whole machine was just RAM and storage memory now.). Think RAM prices in 2020, but worse. And the prices are only going to get worse for consumers, as well, because at the end of the day, the general consumers are the very last people these megacorps think about. [B][I]It's all about b2b (business-to-business) selling now, don'tcha know~?[/I][/B] But I agree with [USER=186183]@Graves Ruinwalker[/USER]: The future is retro. Unfortunately for Steam, AI really ruined everything for the PC space. This really is one of the absolute worst times to release new hardware, though I can see Valve pushing back the release dates if the prices get too out of hand because otherwise it'll just be a repeat of the first time they tried (and failed) to release Steam machines (early 2010s when the hardware just wasn't there yet). [/QUOTE]

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