I kept trying to hammer this on Lemmy, but no one listens :( Mods also seem uninterested in information hygiene.

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CPU makers can’t really make system memory affordably, unfortunately. That’s why it’s separate in the first place :(

Intel has actually done this in the past, with a little eDRAM cache for their integrated graphics on some older 5000 series CPUs, like the 5775C. It topped out at 128MB.

AMD already does something similar with their X3D CPUs, albeit with SRAM… it tops out at 64MB.

They will sell you a bigger version, with IIRC 768MB of L3 memory, for many thousands of dollars.

Another issue is that CPU designs take many, many years to go from initial idea to manufacturing, along with truckloads of cash. So they couldn’t even respond to this shortage in 2026 if they wanted to.

Another is that AMD outsources their manufacturing anyway, though not Intel.

Strix Halo (AI Max CPUs) are basically that.

But they’re still DDR5 hanging off a bus, manufactured in the same place as sticks, so that wouldn’t really affect the price.

I was just about to bang out that they must lose a lot of heat from the compression. But apparently not! That’s amazing.

I’m struggling to think of systems that would significantly outperform “75%+”. Chilled superconducting coils? Those are expensive, and would fail rather catastrophically.

A prudent strategy would be a 2nd account for orders, maybe?

Yeah :(

Still though, Intel has their own fabs not really restricted by any of this. And not as easy to spin down as PCB making. So the CPU is likely to be the cheapest of anything.

You don’t need LLMs for that. An iPhone is plenty powerful enough for image recognition and text classification.

That’s sorta the funny thing about AI. There’s tons of potential, but it’s just unimplemented. Even on PC, you pretty much have to have some Nvidia GPU and fight pip setting up python repos to get anything working.

The last feature is the mildly interesting one, but in my experience just not useful enough to do much, even on specific browsing finetunes or augmented APIs.

I guess shake to summarize is mildly interesting, but not really? I simply can’t trust it. And I can just paste the (much more concise) relevant text into a chat window and get a much better answer.

Does anyone even talk about what the “AI features” are?

Could I, liked recolor webpages? Automate ublock filters? Detect SEO/AI slop? Create a price/feature table out of a shopping page?

See, this would all be neat like auto translate is neat.

But I’m not really interested in the 7 millionth barebones chatbot UI. I’m not interested in loading a whole freaking LLM to auto name my tabs, or in some cutsie auto navigation agent experiment that still only works like 20% of the time with a 600B LLM, or a shopping chatbot that doesn’t do anything like Amazon/Perplexity.

That’s the weird thing about all this. I’m not against neat features, but “AI!” is not a feature, and everyone is right to assume it will be some spam because that’s what 99% of everything AI is. But it’s like every CEO on Earth has caught the same virus and think a product with “AI” in the name is like a holy grail, regardless of functionality.

Well, just to rule it out, have you tried Windows? Like a neutered windows with defender disabled and such.

I’ve found that Linux can get rather fussy under high memory pressure. It works and doesn’t crash, but it also really bogs down anything high performance once the swapping begins.

It can also get fussy with Nvidia.

So I’m not saying Skyrim will run better on Windows, but it might be worth a shot.

I run CachyOS, yet I still keep Windows around for some other heavily modded games.

I think there are already community tools for texture management and decompression.

And… I don’t know. There’s such a critical mass of mods now that it doesn’t seem worth breaking compatibility with them all once again?

The Skyrim mod scene is actually extremely messy; if you look at other bigs ones (like, say, Stardew Valley), there’s a lot more cohesiveness and performance consciousness among modders. Or Mass Effect, which is more consolidated amongst a few big modsz

So I think the Skyrim community could do a better job of creating an easier to set up, more performant out-of-the-box experience for players, even as jank as the game is. But the game just has a different culture around it, I think.

As a silver lining, you think this could stabilize GPU prices? Or at least CPU prices?

If there’s less RAM/SSDs to build PCs with, then people will buy fewer GPUs/CPUs for them.

Playing it on a lean linux distro (or simply neutering Windows heavily) helps a ton. There’s tons of Windows stuff that just sits in the background for no reason.

There are also texture optimizers for Skyrim, and some other performance mods.

Yep.

There’s tons of great reasons to hate AI. Tech Bros. Spam in every nook and cranny.

…But the power/water use has always been overblown. US tech is particularly sloppy about it, setting up generators and evaporators in cities, running huge training runs without proper optimization, but thats FOMO, impatience, and Tech Bro Evangelism more than a fundamental characteristic. It doesn’t have to be that way, and I’d wager they can’t sustain it long.

I dunno what you’re on about, Battlemage is great for the money and they appear to have committed to stick with Arc. And they have fab customers now.

…Yeah, Intel still has that corporate Game of Thrones going on internally. That’s not ideal. But AMD sunk much lower than that, and climbed out.

It’s remarkable how consistently awful Microsoft stuff is.

I cite a comment from my Dad: “I don’t know what copilot is, but I don’t want it.” New Microsoft Feature = spam is literally trained into regular people’s brains now, like an animal that’s been repeatedly burned.

Joke’s on you.

They don’t actually make any money. Not unless their a monopoly that’s captured regulators anyway.

All the billionares watched a few too many 2077 YouTube videos.

Why do you think they’re so specifically interested in space datacenters? And AR glasses? And AGI, and corpo states? Just to start.