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News/Article China's Memory Maker CXMT Used Stolen Samsung Tech to Skip Years of R&D, Former Engineer Testifies

https://respawnfirst.com/chinas-memory-maker-cxmt-used-stolen-samsung-tech-to-skip-years-of-rd-former-engineer-testifies/
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u/foolish_shrimp Aug 22 '26

None of this AI stuff is profitable, it doesn’t make people more productive and even although it's being sold at a loss, users complain about the price.

This specialised, very densely packed AI hardware, maybe it's useful for game streaming? or supercomputer work, I just, can't see this replacing the mean average computing task. Adobe could buy a bunch of space and use it to offer an all in one Creative Suite with compute package? but uploading all your files is going to take forever for the target audience.

The people who need a PC to do basic office work, it's just not something that could ever need cloud computing. If the basic box exists and like, the concept of creative industries exist, higher end PC's will too.

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u/Scoo_By PC Master Race 25d ago

The people who need a PC to do basic office work

Me. My father and I own a manufacturing business, that just requires using Word, Acrobat, and printing/scanning. We can't care less about cloud computing.

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u/SirNedKingOfGila Aug 23 '26 edited Aug 23 '26

None of this AI stuff is profitable,

Doesn't need to be, you are thinking old-school.

it doesn’t make people more productive

It doesn't need to, it will be forced on us regardless.

users complain about the price.

Everybody is complaining about groceries, gasoline, and media subscriptions and yet they are buying every dollar of it.

I just, can't see this replacing the mean average computing task.

Your lack of vision is not central to Microsoft's nor palantir's plan.

Adobe could buy a bunch of space and use it to offer an all in one Creative Suite with compute package?

They already have this.

but uploading all your files is going to take forever for the target audience.

What files? You can't afford to store anything locally. You have no computers. You're renting cloud storage and compute power. Upload and download is nothing but a video stream.

people who need a PC to do basic office work

People? Basic office work isn't for people. AI agents are already handling the vast majority of office work. What kind of lunatic would pay somebody to respond to an email or create a spreadsheet in 2026????

If the basic box exists

Okay I think we found the crux of your misunderstanding. The box doesn't exist. It's being purposefully eliminated as we speak. Why in the world would they allow you a "box" when they can charge you for the compute power and storage on a subscription basis for hundreds of times more money than you would pay for the hardware?

the concept of creative industries exist,

They don't. AI is already beginning to fulfill all of the creative needs you have never asked for. Boomer. You rally against this new technology and you have faith that the next generation will see things as you do. The next generation is being raised on slop. They're being fed slop in the classroom. Slop is all they know. They don't know how to read. They don't know how to think.

The personal computer will be dead within the consciousness of the average consumer by next year. It may persist as a niche market for the wealthy for a while longer... But you will live to see the absolute end of personal compute power. Mark my words.

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u/foolish_shrimp Aug 23 '26

They don't. AI is already beginning to fulfill all of the creative needs you have never asked for. Boomer. You rally against this new technology and you have faith that the next generation will see things as you do. The next generation is being raised on slop. They're being fed slop in the classroom. Slop is all they know. They don't know how to read. They don't know how to think.

Some of the oldest writing we have is old people complaining that the next generation will be the death of all culture and end of the world.

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u/SirNedKingOfGila Aug 23 '26

I would hardly call Bill Gates and Peter thiel "The next generation". The reality is that the next generation are the victims. Yes, the world is being stolen from them.

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u/foolish_shrimp Aug 23 '26

The next generation is being raised on slop. They're being fed slop in the classroom. Slop is all they know. They don't know how to read. They don't know how to think.

This is you bemoaning the death of culture because of the youth. People are always saying this shit. It will be fine, the kids are ok actually.

I generally think that the 'death of personal compute' thing is very overblown. People still buy and play nes games on original hardware that is 40 years old. Film photography is incredibly popular, vinyl is very much the opposite of dead, despite spotify's best efforts. I just don't think apple will stop making computers, or that raspberry pi's are going to cease to exist. Could nvidia stop making GPU's for consumers? sure, but their products are planned years in advance, there is going to be a 60 series, those will need to go into computers.