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Sam Altman wants all the world’s RAM to himself, and the memes are hilarious<\/h1>\n
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Got a computer, phone, or a tablet with some memory chips inside? That’s a shame. You shouldn’t be doing that. <\/p>\n

Well, at least not according to OpenAI’s Sam Altman, who shared his view on the rampant memory shortage in an interview on the YouTube Cheeky Pint and Stripe channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The entire interview is an interesting listen if you’re into AI, but the fun part starts at about 29:20 in the video. “From a global allocation perspective, actually it’s quite terrible to have everybody have a bunch of the world’s limited DRAM supply sitting in their own computer,” said Altman without batting an eyelash. <\/p>\n

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True, Altman was making a broader point, and he did speak after a few pints of beer, but the comment is still pretty cheeky at a moment in which everyone buying any sort of electronic device that uses RAM memory<\/a> is facing higher prices, precisely because the big business’ hunger for AI compute is sucking in all of the world’s RAM chips. <\/p>\n

The internet, of course, had something to say about Altman’s seemingly never-ending lust for DRAM chips. The sentiment is clear: Stay away from our home machines, Altman. We’ve paid a steep price for a meager 16GB of RAM. <\/p>\n

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    — Radhika Sharma (@Radhika__009) November 1, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n