It's actually even dumber than this because it was OpenAI that made the purchase with no plan for how to actually use the wafers. NVIDIA could actually do something with them.
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Ok, how is this not illegal? Buying up all the supply to prevent competitors from buying any, even when you can't use it yourself. There's gotta be some anticompetitive regulation that would cover this
Gonna need a functional government with a functioning regulatory body for that.
Edit: also, Congress seems to be able to just lasso anyone and pull them into a hearing to make a show of damn near anything. We could really use one of those for this (and many other) boondongles right now.
How could congress possibly keep white collar crime in check when they're already so busy enabling fascism?
(the same fascism which is also being bankrolled by those same tech oligarchs, by the way)
And they were even real sneaky about it by buying up from the two largest global suppliers at the same time in secret so that neither knew they were buying up the whole global supply. This probably is technically illegal, but the US doesn't enforce shit like this.
Because it's stupid and fixes itself later.
Substitute 'Open'AI for NVIDIA, not that it won't mostly end up in their pockets, there's this whole BS techbro financial circlejerk going on.
True. It's not only them, but all the other techbros trying to make sure, that they get also the biggest load of that gigantic, orb-like circlejerk first. That bothers me the most. It's the whole market.
Funny you sayvthis, Altman’s other scam is World Orb - a creepy and actually useless “biometric scanner” that is a crypto scam under the hood.
I haven't even owned an NVIDIA product. AMD has always offered me obviously better value. I've always seen the logos these companies make deals with each other over, pretending their games run better on one brand over the other...
I will never buy NVIDIA as long as I live. It's time for new hobbies I guess. Sad.
pretending their games run better on one brand over the other…
That's absolutely a thing. There are a lot of benchmark channels showing noticeable changes in fps for some games between brands. Depending on the game, that might change the value proposition.
CUDA support is what really pissed me off. I wanted to do some early machine learning (photogrammetry and computer vision stuff) 10-15 years ago, but the only way to use it was on nvidia hardware.
The industry relying on proprietary platform always ends up stuck like this
You're right, but the further from release you are the less relevant this becomes. Another win for patient gamers
Over the lifetimes of the GPUs, many that benchmarked higher on nvidia early on swapped places as the AMD drivers matured.
Famously, Nvidia drivers contain hacks for lots of games. Nvidia takes the crappy games and writes work arounds into the drivers to make the games work.
That has more to do with driver compatibility. "Engineered for NVIDIA" does not mean your AMD is going to have a disadvantage unless the game just came out. And when it comes to AAA titles you've either got the power or you don't. If the drivers are up to date for the game in question, how you program a game is not really that big of a concern.
It's just branding deals most of the time. They are not using some secret property tech.
The true catch 22 is devs use dlss as a crutch Escape From Tarkov has had a bug on AMD causing distant objects to shimmer.
I was AMD only for years but since it's one of the main games we play I caved and it feels shitty.
The developments of the last couple of years have definitely changed the tech available on cards. With he AI upscaling coming and games running at SNES resolutions I'm out of knowledge going forward.
Me neiter! I don't care about all these made-up so-called state of the art extra features BS.
Find out how to crash the stock market with this one weird trick
Then they’ll all get bailed out because they are too big to fail.
Thanks Obama
With the tax money that they didn't pay, but their underpaid workers did...
How? It's not like the US government can just sell more bonds like they used to.
In a central banking system, the central bank can create and destroy money from nothing. All banks can do it, though banks that aren't the central bank need to hold on to a reserve portion which iirc is 10%, so they can loan out (effectively creating) 90% of deposits, which compounds (ie, if you deposit $100, the bank can lend out $90 of that, and if that borrower puts that $90 in their account, then the bank can loan another $81, meaning for the original deposit of $100, now $271 exists, and that $81 can be loaned against, too).
Congress can borrow money from the central bank or other banks. It's also possible that they could seize the central bank and then just say they have the money and use that, though that's how Germany ended up with stories of people using a wheelbarrow full of cash to buy a coffee or diners paying when they ordered because prices would have gone up by the time they finished eating.
Are you kidding? Yes, they can still sell treasuries. They will max out the credit before these clowns lose their death grip on the federal government, but we are no where near that yet.
No matter how bad our government is, the other governments are worse. We have never missed a payment. The dollar has remained consistently high relative to other currencies at least. And we make a shitload of money, even if it all gets stolen by rich dickheads that give nothing back from it and chisel us so much it can be easy to forget just how rich this country is from our impoverished places in this system. Relatively impoverished, compared to previous generations. In real terms, inflation adjusted tells us we've never had more buying power, unable to afford houses and professional services, and food and insurance and the rest, because they changed the cpi to understate it, 5-8 is average under the unchanged standard, and 2-3 under the new, for 50 years we've gotten compound fucked, but that's another story.
We will definitely be bailing these AI companies out, as long as they are current on their protection monies and kickbacks to mein herr frauleinraper in chief. Probably several bail outs past then, into the new supreme leader after him, before they max out borrowing, and then print money to pay it off and crash the dollar and de facto default. That is probably when they really start eating the rich themselves, when they already stole everything that's not nailed down, then they start taking down their allies to steal their money, but that's another story. Debt may be able to get to 100 trillion before it crashes down.
How to harvest trillions in borrowed tax dollars with this one simple trick the taxpayers don't want you to know about!
uhhh, "sure" 😅
that is not expected
I only got $10 on me. Can I pay you the rest using my company's stock?
The stocks who's value is based on the purchase of ram you just made using stocks as payment? Seems perfectly logical to me.
Welcome to 2026, where the rules are made up and the points are all that matter
I tried to make a new build on pcpartpicker and several times my RAM choice sold out before I could complete the build. It really opened my eyes to the state of the market
I don't even wanna upgrade my PC atm, just a SATA 6 SDD as a cheap data grave, but guess what: even these cost as much as the M.2s in Sep. 2025. Though luck!
My 15ish year old pc blue screened of death on me. It had a few new parts over time but the same cpu and gpu so I had little choice but to upgrade. I figured I'd go mid range now and it will keep up with my needs for a few years to come.
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NVIDIA: "Can I pay with OpenAI IOU's?"
Hope as strategy. There paying with a bet. They are too big too fail.
The OpenAI IOUs are all covered by NVidia's "will invest"s. NVidia doesn't have extra to spend around.
What doesn't make anything any better, of course. And it's OpenAI on that line irl anyway. And they did in fact buy it with lots of "will invest" papers from other companies.
There’s never going to be a time in my life where I will be able to afford even a modest gaming computer :(
Pre-built machines are still going for reasonable prices but once those companies run out of old stock that'll be done for. If you've got a Costco membership they have some IBuyPower PCs for a pretty reasonable price. I got a ryzen 7, RTX5070 and 32GB of ddr5 for $1600. They have an Intel ultra 5, RTX5060, and 32GB ddr5 for $1,099.
I just wish I had an extra 1600 laying around. I am feeling the pinch after spending 40 bucks on drapes.
Don't worry friend, the AI bubble will pop. Unfortunately, it will probably trigger a massive recession when it does, but that won't last forever either.
sure there is.
steal it.
order ddr5 ram. return ddr3 ram as ddr5 and tell them it was opened and the wrong thing.
it's no different than what AI fascists are doing right now.
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My good computer broke, the one I have is defective, and the worst I've ever had, maybe even worse than the windows vista desktop. Now I can't buy a new one anytime soon, because of this stupid AI bubble. Nothing good will come out of this AI either, best case scenario they go bust and our tax dollars bail them out. Worst case they take all of our jobs and or use it to create a dystopian surveillance state with mandatory colonoscopies and court ordered president branded brain chips if you fall behind on your debts.
This is going to be huge when it blows!
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