Sam Altman says home PCs waste scarce DRAM; Musk mocks him
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On the Cheeky Pint podcast, Altman called it "quite terrible" that the world's limited DRAM sits in personal computers used 5% of the time, arguing cloud data centers offer maximum utilization amid a supply crunch. Musk replied with a Hans Landa meme: "The people deserve to have their RAM too!"
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