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0 pointswmf1y ago0 comments

What is kind of new is that hyperscalers sometimes get chips 1-2 years before the rest. If the new chip is 3x-4x faster that looks pretty unfair.

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> What is kind of new is that hyperscalers sometimes get chips 1-2 years before the rest.

That's not new. Replace hyperscalers with crypto miners and we've had a similar situation for a while.

Crypto miners no longer buy up large quantities of GPUs. That market died off when ETH switched from PoW to PoS.

> Crypto miners no longer buy up large quantities of GPUs.

That's news to crypto miners.

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0 pointswmf1y ago0 comments

What is kind of new is that hyperscalers sometimes get chips 1-2 years before the rest. If the new chip is 3x-4x faster that looks pretty unfair.

> What is kind of new is that hyperscalers sometimes get chips 1-2 years before the rest.

That's not new. Replace hyperscalers with crypto miners and we've had a similar situation for a while.

Crypto miners no longer buy up large quantities of GPUs. That market died off when ETH switched from PoW to PoS.

> Crypto miners no longer buy up large quantities of GPUs.

That's news to crypto miners.

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