I think Steve from Gamers Nexus broke this first…

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    Can you imagine the price drop once we raid these center?! The marketplace will be FLOODED! Cheap!

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    The situation described in the report saw NVIDIA on the hook for an “avalanche” of GPUs from TSMC, for which it would have no immediate buyers. Part of the issue highlighted by Kress was also that these small-scale cloud providers NVIDIA was investing in could not afford to buy NVIDIA GPUs, meaning they, too, could be a financial dead end.

    This is big. Nvidia also didn’t show up in last few weeks for OpenAI’s financing desperation. There were bigger 5090 shortages this summer, as rumour that datacenters were being built around them, after rtxpro shortages.

    Nvidia circular financing started off the bubble. But it needs new bagholders, and its sales/extortion power plummets as its investments fail. OpenAI failure brings down the industry financial backers, though it makes GPUs/RAM cheap again.

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      11 hours ago

      If it’s legal then Nvidia has managed to grab huge shares in AI companies. If chips become cheap now, AI companies will make profits and Nvidia benefits from having the shares.

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        it makes it easier for cloud services, though these will remain competitive. It makes it easier to escape the cloud too, or to directly rent GPU VM spaces.

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    It’s not circular financing, it’s not a bubble you guys. This is all legit above table normal capiterlizum

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    19 hours ago

    Coming soon: A class action lawsuit against NVidia for everyone that bought a graphics card between the dates of X and Y who will eventually receive a 15$ cheque in the mail 5 years from now.

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    Um… wasn’t this well known? They’d buy up struggling companies, then secure a purchase agreement for GPUs through those companies in order to inflate their sales figures. They did this. A lot.

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      I didn’t know they allegedly had more GPUs than they knew what to do with, which is what the report says. Up until now, the public knowledge has been that the AI bubble has been used to justify sketchy deals like circular financing in an attempt to chase the unlimited profits promised by the discovery of AGI. As though they had no trouble selling them, but wanted to sell them in a way that also cut them in on future AI advancements.

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    I mean that’s great and all, but AMD is selling everything they make. They have Zen 6 out and it’s going directly into servers.