Needless to say, Fujifilm is citing generative AI and other AI-related services as major drivers behind the growing demand for magnetic tape

LTO-10 tapes were released earlier this year, providing a native capacity of 40 terabytes.

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    6 days ago

    Is $64m even an investment in the context of AI components? That just feels like the price of 64GB of RAM.

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      6 days ago

      Magnetic tape manufacture is dirt cheep compared to everything else, $64 million in manufacture equipment would be pretty big