“Be cautious!”: Amazon reportedly canceled graphics card orders due to the memory crisis

Would the e-commerce giant Amazon cancel individual customers’ orders because of the global memory shortage? In any case, that is what accounts from an X user and Tim Sweeney, founder and CEO of Epic Games, suggest.

Canceled computer hardware orders

On the social network X, a user going by Nicksaraev explains that he placed four separate orders for the DGX Spark on Amazon, a mini-supercomputer dedicated to artificial intelligence. Up until then, nothing unusual. But then, Nicksaraev says, supported by screenshots, that Amazon canceled his orders but also closed his account. In an email, the e-commerce giant explains that it made this decision after conducting a thorough analysis of his account, without providing any further details.

Nicksaraev says he had never experienced this kind of problem before and reaches the conclusion: “No matter how hard I try, Amazon won’t let me buy the DGX Spark.” He then warns: “Even buying modest amounts of computing power immediately puts you on a watch list. Be careful!” To be clear, Nicksaraev explains that he needs these DGX Spark units to set up “local models for a project” and that he does not resell them.

Meanwhile, Tim Sweeney, founder and CEO of Epic Games, appears to have experienced a similar mishap. His Amazon account was not suspended, but his orders for two Nvidia GPUs were canceled. In response to Nicksaraev’s post, he explained: “ Interesting. Amazon did not suspend my account, but continued to accept all my usual orders before canceling them just before their delivery date, after I tried to buy two Nvidia graphics cards. Rather strange ”. 

Sam Altman wants your RAM to be in his data centers

We recently discussed this, Sam Altman said: “it is actually rather terrible that everyone has a pile of DRAM, whose global supply is limited, sitting in their own computer and being used 5% of the time ”. In other words, the RAM in your computer should be in OpenAI’s data centers.

It is nevertheless difficult not to draw a connection between Sam Altman’s remarks and the strange Amazon order cancellations reported by Tim Sweeney and Nicksaraev. Has the memory crisis become so severe that inventory should now be reserved for large companies rather than individuals? In and of itself, that has already been the case for some time, but it seems that this trend is intensifying even further.

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Source: X - Nicksaraev