For several years now, application developers have adopted the subscription system to periodically monetize their services/applications, Microsoft and Adobe being two examples on PC, a system which has also been adopted by many mobile application developers and contrary to what many users believed, the plan did not go bad at all, especially in this latter ecosystem where users want to pay once and forget about it.
Currently, at the national level, there is no material who dared to offer a hardware subscription model, even if, given the price of certain models, notably the chart Yes processors
In professional environments, the use of a leasing system is more than common, both for PCs and vehicles. However, until now we have not seen a subscription system for components like the one that Samsung is preparing to present at the NVIDIA GTC 2024 which will take place in a few weeks.
Pay to use an SSD
According to Business Korea, the Korean company will be present at this event, the most important commercially in the world, where the most important technological companies and now also all projects focused on Artificial intelligence.
Samsung wants to introduce a new server business, particularly storage units, in which it plans to offer a subscription system for businesses. This subscription system is designed to solve a common problem in this sector and that is none other than the high investment necessary to create server infrastructures.
According to this media, companies that hire this subscription service They will only have to worry about paying the corresponding monthly payment, since the company will take care of its maintenance and replacement if necessary, thus also reducing the maintenance expenses of server installations.
This move seems focused on recovering some of the ground lost last year, when production was reduced to virtually zero due to excess inventory on the market, a stock that is dwindling and, as we commented in other items, is associated with an increase in the price of new units entering the market.
PC component rental
Renting storage units makes perfect sense, because, especially in servers, it is one of the components that degrades most easily, being in operation 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, therefore the Samsung’s idea will surely be very well received in the market.
Obviously, this subscription system does not make sense at the national level since user needs are not as high as at the national level. server centers.
Once Samsung presents its new proposal at the NVIDIA GTC, it is more than likely that other companies will jump on the bandwagon, although given the sales figures of Intel and NVIDIA, it is unlikely that they will do so, at least in the short term. term. , since they do not need to expand their sectors of activity.
