Sam Altman calls PC RAM use 'terrible' allocation, meets Samsung on memory chip supply
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said using DRAM in consumer PCs is a 'quite terrible' allocation of global resources, then met about 50 Samsung executives in South Korea on October 31 to discuss memory chip supply and AI data centers.
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Timeline · 28 reports
- 2026-11-01 16:05 · TechRadar AI
'AI is not creating the problem': OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says AI is merely uncovering all the vulnerabilities we've accumulated over the years - 2026-11-01 14:21 · Tom's Hardware
Sam Altman meets with Samsung leadership to secure more RAM for data centers amid crushing shortages - 2026-11-01 14:21 · Tom's Hardware
Sam Altman meets with Samsung leadership to secure more RAM for data centers amid crushing shortages — OpenAI CEO travels to South Korea to meet Samsung leadership to discuss future AI data centers - 2026-11-01 03:58 · r/machinelearningnews
Sam Altman says our PC RAM is a "terrible allocation of global resources." His argument has zero basis, here’s what I built ARCaiL OE under. - 2026-10-31 12:34 · Economic Times Tech
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman meets Samsung executives to discuss memory chip supply, AI infrastructure - 2026-10-31 12:04 · The Next Web
Sam Altman: DRAM in home PCs is ‘quite terrible’, used 5% of the time - 2026-10-31 12:03 · The Next Web
Sam Altman meets Samsung’s presidents days after his DRAM remark - 2026-10-31 11:30 · TechRadar AI
'He can pry it from my cold, dead hands': Sam Altman says it's 'quite terrible' that you're using RAM in your PC when there's not enough for AI data centers - 2026-10-31 06:40 · Bloomberg AI
OpenAI’s Altman Meets Samsung Executives as Chip Crunch Deepens - 2026-10-31 06:24 · DEV Community — AI
Sam Altman Says the RAM in Your PC Is "Quite Terrible." For Client Work, He's Half Right - 2026-10-31 06:10 · Techmeme
When talking about local inference, Sam Altman says supply-constrained DRAM is better used in data centers than sitting in PCs and "being used 5% of the time" - 2026-10-31 05:37 · r/OpenAI
Sam Altman on RAM - 2026-10-30 20:48 · The Verge AI
Sam Altman says it’s better for RAM to be in a data center than on your desk - 2026-10-30 19:59 · r/antiai
Sam Altman and his bullshit - 2026-10-30 19:47 · r/artificial
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says it's "quite terrible" for your PC to have RAM — Sam Altman says data centers offer better utilization - 2026-10-30 19:26 · r/antiai
Its quite terrible for Sam Altman to have RAM - 2026-10-30 19:24 · r/LocalLLM
OpenAI CEO says it's 'quite terrible' for your PC to have RAM — Sam Altman says data centers offer better utilization - 2026-10-30 18:13 · r/OpenAI
OpenAI CEO says it's 'quite terrible' for your PC to have RAM — Sam Altman says data centers offer better utilization - 2026-10-30 16:28 · Tom's Hardware
OpenAI CEO says it's 'quite terrible' for your PC to have RAM — Sam Altman says data centers offer better utilization - 2026-10-30 16:28 · Tom's Hardware
OpenAI CEO says it's 'quite terrible' for your PC to have RAM - 2026-10-30 15:38 · r/singularity
Sam Altman says the chip supply chain's invisible hand is failing — and DRAM is why - 2026-10-30 15:11 · Data Center Dynamics
The network wall: why switches aren’t scaling fast enough for AI data centers - 2026-10-30 12:59 · r/OpenAI
OpenAI is openly attempting to build self-replicating data centers. In 2019, Ilya described the endgame of this process. - 2026-10-30 12:56 · r/agi
OpenAI is openly attempting to build self-replicating data centers. In 2019, Ilya described the endgame of this process. - 2026-10-30 12:14 · Tom's Guide AI
Sam Altman says your laptop RAM is a 'terrible’ allocation of scarce resources: Why I think the AI bubble is about to prove him wrong - 2026-10-29 23:11 · r/LocalLLaMA
Sam Altman: “Local inference is a terrible allocation of scarce resources” - 2026-10-29 17:05 · r/OpenAI
Sam Altman says self replicating data centers built by AI-controlled robots is “within grasp” - 2026-10-29 17:04 · r/artificial
Sam Altman says self replicating data centers built by AI-controlled robots is “within grasp”