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NVidia GeForce RTX 50x0 cards - 70% performance increase, but AI > you
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I live where booze, pot, prostitution, and gambling are legal and I do none of it.Everyone knows the winning move is gambling instead of investing.
I was killing time one evening when we were waiting for my in-laws to meet us for dinner and I put $1 in a video poker machine. I doubled it and took it out. My wife gave me shit about it so I put my now $2 in and won $8. Cashed out then. No rush from gambling and I work too hard to give money away. Hell I even put a pic of my 'big winnings' on FB.
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Just a joke. I don't drink. I am retired at 55 besides health problems I would be retired now anyway. Mostly due to gambling, not the kind sitting in a casino. Buying stuff that can have zero value for some time or none at all forever. Then having it pay off largely. A lot of stuff is gambling without being the tradition sense of betting on a card game or sports game and such. The most I've ever gambled in a traditional sense is maybe $10.
Of the opnion some small business operations are gambling in a way, not tons of people doing research and investors to pump money in. But a single person gambling their idea may work.
I don't think you need a more sinister explanation here than 'money'. Why sell someone something when you can rent them something indefinitely instead ?
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"AI is about to die" simply because of ChatGPT is a stupid take. Also, I'd bet more that Google's new AI compression has more to do with dying RAM prices than ChatGPT. I've never had a Twitter / X account but it seems whenever people post these hot takes from them they are always shit. Makes me wonder why people still go to the site.
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I’ve read that by the time manufacturing is ramped up to meet the demand, the demand may no longer be there. But I’m not sure that’s correct.
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All of these tech companies buy in advance so if they already ordered then demand will always be known. It's not likely they have a ton of extra stock or anything. I guess the factories could slow down if demand is lower but they'd just lay people off I imagine.
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Which we know they 100% have no issue laying people off, despite record profits.
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Corporations are not there to employ people. They are there to make money for share/stake holders. If they want otherwise go to work for a private company or become self employed. Sucks, but that is the way things work and have for a very long time.
If corporations couold make the same profit with a lot less people, they would be gone in a beart beat. Assuming people kept buying their product after mass layoffs.
If corporations couold make the same profit with a lot less people, they would be gone in a beart beat. Assuming people kept buying their product after mass layoffs.
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Demand is pretty accurately predicted years in advance. Big companies like Apple will buy a year's worth of production up front. Things like AI booms and global pandemics are not factored in. As such, they keep the supply fairly inelastic, because the majority of the time they barely make money.
Fabs take years and billions of dollars to build. No one is going to rush out and throw up a fab for demand that may or may not be there when it comes online. They will build them according to projections, but not for temporary run ups in demand.
Not quite the same thing, but Toyota side steps production interruptions by requiring suppliers to keep x_months worth of inventory on hand and ready to ship. Nearly every other company has Just In Time delivery from the moment it is made to when it is installed. Toyota outsources the cost of that burden to its suppliers, yet still enjoys the benefits of JIT. JIT for Me, but Not for Thee.
Hell, at one point, Apple was fronting the cost of new fabs so they could suck up all the production capacity. TSMC was a small player in manufacturing and Apple single handedly made them #1 with investment and orders.
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anyone buying a $10k graphics card would. although if they're basically trying to LLM your graphics real time, vram might be more important than gpu speed, making the 6000 line more the model, and it's much better on power consumption, especially compared to running 3x 5090s to the 1 6000 worth of vram.