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Nvidia won, we all lost

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977 points todsacerdoti | 1 comments | 04 Jul 25 21:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.27s | source
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Kon5ole ◴[05 Jul 25 07:37 UTC] No.44470819[source]▶
TSMC can only make about as many Nvidia chips as OpenAI and the other AI guys wants to buy. Nvidia releases gpus made from basically the shaving leftovers from the OpenAI products, which makes them limited in supply and expensive.

So gamers have to pay much more and wait much longer than before, which they resent.

Some youtubers make content that profit from the resentment so they play fast and loose with the fundamental reasons in order to make gamers even more resentful. Nvidia has "crazy prices" they say.

But they're clearly not crazy. 2000 dollar gpus appear in quantities of 50+ from time to time at stores here but they sell out in minutes. Lowering the prices would be crazy.

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1. xiphias2 ◴[05 Jul 25 10:27 UTC] No.44471660[source]▶
This is one reason, and another is that both Dennard scaling has stopped and GPUs hit a memory wall for DRAM. The only reason AI hardware gets the significant improvements is that they are using big matmuls and a lot of research has been in getting lower precision (now 4bit) training working (numerical precision stability was always a huge problem with backprop).