OpenAI’s Lightcap Sees Memory Shortage as Bottleneck Risk for AI

OpenAI Chief Operating Officer Brad Lightcap said that the ongoing memory chip shortage and constraints on US energy supplies are potential bottlenecks to expanding artificial intelligence infrastructure.

“Right now, it’s memory,” Lightcap said on-stage at the Hill and Valley Forum in Washington on Tuesday. “It’s been power in the past.”

A growing number of tech industry leaders have warned about the impact that the memory chip shortage could have on pricing and product plans. OpenAI and other firms have been gobbling up an increasing share of memory chip production — by buying millions of Nvidia Corp. AI accelerators that come ...