11/05/2026
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Sam Altman said it on a podcast last week. It is “quite terrible,” in his words, for the world’s limited DRAM to sit in your computer being used 5 percent of the time. The PC press roasted him. Priced In reads it differently. It is a product announcement.
Three numbers. OpenAI’s stated target: 900,000 DRAM wafer starts a month. TrendForce: conventional DRAM contract prices up 90 to 95 percent in a single quarter this year. Samsung, the same day the podcast dropped: 2027 demand will far exceed supply.
Put those together and the remark is not a gaffe. When the vendor calls your hardware a misallocation, your inference is going on a meter. That is the business model, said out loud.
What the full edition has that this caption does not: the $1.4 trillion figure in Altman’s own words, why local inference is repriced rather than dead, and what all of it does to the invoice at a medical practice.
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