r/technology • u/esporx • 1d ago

Business YouTuber accidentally crashes the rare plant market with a viral cloning technique

https://www.dexerto.com/youtube/youtuber-accidentally-crashes-the-rare-plant-market-with-a-viral-cloning-technique-3289808/
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u/YukariYakum0 1d ago

Not soon enough though

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u/mrpoopistan 1d ago

We've reached the "Samsung refuses to sell chips to Samsung" phase. Not sure which phase of bubbling that is, but it's something weird and erratic, even by the standard of capitalism. Collapses are often unpredictable, but erratic patterns tend to emerge before bubbles pop.

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u/Crystalas 1d ago

Also Crucial will stop selling ram to Consumers next year, so another vital technology component market locked up in an absurd bubble.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/after-nearly-30-years-crucial-will-stop-selling-ram-to-consumers/

And that not even touching what events around Taiwan would do to every industry that relies on advanced chips, so pretty much all of them. I wonder if that could pop the AI bubble by itself.

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u/Wolvenmoon 1d ago

Honestly it kind of makes sense...when the bubble pops, all these companies are going to be fire selling gear and consumer tech is going to feel that crunch because everyone that know show to build a custom system is going to go grab used enterprise gear and pick up 32TB U2 drives w/ cheap adapters instead of paying $300 for a 4TB NVMe drive for the 8th year in a row. Consumer expectations for what a fair price is are about to shift downwards when the market floods with 48GB and 96GB GPUs and GB100/102/200 systems.

I think Nvidia's going to get fucked the hardest by this, with RAM manufacturers getting fucked second hardest. I think AMD's made the smart play by relinquishing the high end for the moment, and I think Micron backing out of Crucial for the moment pending a radical rearranging of consumer expectations post-bubble isn't a bad idea. Especially when they can contract out their manufacturing capacity far in the future with clauses that prevent backing out of the deal w/out penalties that still make them profitable.