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Nvidia won, we all lost

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981 points todsacerdoti | 2 comments | 04 Jul 25 21:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.44s | source
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Nextgrid ◴[04 Jul 25 23:04 UTC] No.44468683[source]▶
I wonder if the 12VHPWR connector is intentionally defective to prevent large-scale use of those consumer cards in server/datacenter contexts?

The failure rate is just barely acceptable in a consumer use-case with a single card, but with multiple cards the probability of failure (which takes down the whole machine, as there's no way to hot-swap the card) makes it unusable.

I can't otherwise see why they'd persevere on that stupid connector when better alternatives exist.

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1. KerrAvon ◴[04 Jul 25 23:22 UTC] No.44468802[source]▶
IANAL, but knowingly leaving a serious defect in your product at scale for that purpose would be very bad behavior and juries tend not like that sort of thing.
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2. thimabi ◴[05 Jul 25 01:27 UTC] No.44469407[source]▶
However, as we’ve learned from the Epic vs Apple case, corporations don’t really care about bad behavior — as long as their ulterior motives don’t get caught.