A two-person AI team mapped out its 2027 compute plan last quarter.
The plan assumed next generation hardware would be cheaper, and available.
Samsung's Q3 2026 earnings call removed both assumptions.
Memory shortages get worse in 2027.
Supply constraints run into 2028.
Samsung has already sold its entire 2027 HBM4 supply, and customers on long-term agreements hold as much as 70% of capacity.
Jaejune Kim, Samsung's Executive Vice President of Memory Global Sales and Marketing, put the timeline on the record: HBM4E reaches mass production in the first half of 2027, with volume ramping in the second half.
A two-person team that needs compute in 2027 now competes for memory that was allocated before it wrote the plan.
Waiting for the next rack means joining a queue that already closed.
That is the case for renting what exists.
RTX 3090s at $0.15/hr run the training and inference a small team needs this quarter, with no capacity contract and no hardware-cycle bet.
Buy Now Pay Later means zero upfront, payment after one month.
Which part of your pipeline is waiting on hardware you cannot reserve?
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