AI now gobbling up power and management chips for servers

The chip shortage is spreading to power and management controller silicon, threatening server shipments as vendors prioritize capacity for higher-margin AI server products. Market watcher TrendForce has downgraded its server shipment grwoth forecast for the whole of 2026 from 20 percent to 13 percent due to extended lead times …

[Eye Know]

How do we do more with the same hardware?

Where I work Linux has replaced Windows where possible, so far, fewer issues.

[Alan Bourke]

Can this AI bullcrap

just die now please.

[may_i]

And there's nothing we can do about it

That's the worst thing. Normally, if a company thought that screwing one part of its customer base was OK because there was another part who was prepared to pay more, the angry customers would go somewhere else.

Now, with the monopoly which still exists and still acts like a cartel, it's more like: Oh, don't like our prices? Tough luck!

[JLV]

Cool, soon we’ll be taking to our VC-money-dried-up, malfunctioning, AI overlords with abaci and blackboards. Very Dilbert Mad Max.