#consolestorage — Public Fediverse posts

“Microsoft is in the middle of a ‘hardware component crisis.’”

“Earlier this year it was reported that the #PlayStation 6 and the new #Xbox consoles could be delayed to 2029 due to #RAMmageddon, which is what some are calling the #scarcity and subsequent #price increase of #memory #chips that are being used in AI data centres.”

“When I joined as #CEO in February, the price we paid for #ConsoleStorage #components was over 2x as high as we paid last fall. These #costs have since doubled again. And as we plan for the 2027 holiday season, we expect another significant increase, taking us over 5x the prices we paid only two years earlier. #Memory costs have followed a broadly similar trajectory,” said Sharma.

“While the entire industry is facing a components crisis, we believe we have been impacted more greatly than many of our peers due to the choices we made over the last half decade.”

Think of finance as the slosh of water 🌊 in a very slow bath. The shortages occur when money has been moved deliberately to another industry. Guess which one?

#Microsoft / #AshaSharma / #manufacturing / #AI / #Computing / #externalities <https://www.nme.com/news/gaming-news/xbox-project-helix-affordable-hardware-crisis-release-date-3950204>

“Microsoft is in the middle of a ‘hardware component crisis.’”

“Earlier this year it was reported that the #PlayStation 6 and the new #Xbox consoles could be delayed to 2029 due to #RAMmageddon, which is what some are calling the #scarcity and subsequent #price increase of #memory #chips that are being used in AI data centres.”

“When I joined as #CEO in February, the price we paid for #ConsoleStorage #components was over 2x as high as we paid last fall. These #costs have since doubled again. And as we plan for the 2027 holiday season, we expect another significant increase, taking us over 5x the prices we paid only two years earlier. #Memory costs have followed a broadly similar trajectory,” said Sharma.

“While the entire industry is facing a components crisis, we believe we have been impacted more greatly than many of our peers due to the choices we made over the last half decade.”

Think of finance as the slosh of water 🌊 in a very slow bath. The shortages occur when money has been moved deliberately to another industry. Guess which one?

#Microsoft / #AshaSharma / #manufacturing / #AI / #Computing / #externalities <https://www.nme.com/news/gaming-news/xbox-project-helix-affordable-hardware-crisis-release-date-3950204>