00:00Why exactly is Valve asking a RAM for spare RAM? Well, it's short in supply right now,
00:05and it's incredibly hard to build new gaming hardware without it, which makes producing
00:10Steam decks and future Steam machines quite a challenge. The reason for the RAM shortage is
00:16the huge surge in demand from AI companies and data centers. Those industries are buying massive
00:22amounts of memory to power machine learning systems, which is putting pressure on global
00:27supply. That means companies building gaming hardware, including Valve, are competing for
00:32the same components. So that's why Valve recently joked, if you have a line on a bunch of RAM,
00:37we are in the market and we would like to buy it. Does anyone have some RAM they can give
00:42to Valve?
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