At Xiaomi's latest smartphone launch event, Xiaomi founder Lei Jun said that memory prices are likely to keep rising over the next two years, which could drive smartphone prices up as well. His conclusion was pretty direct: everyone should just replace their phones now. Kind of a depressing story.
Funny enough, this made me realize that although I'm right-handed, I'm left-footed when it comes to football. As an amateur player, using my right foot with proper shooting form still feels surprisingly awkward to me.
On top of that, China is also facing hardware constraints, which is pushing companies to develop better domestic chips for AI training. It'll be interesting to see how things perform once Huawei's newer hardware is fully deployed at DeepSeek.