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Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startups to Buy Its GPUs

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NVIDIA Allegedly Engineered Scarcity By Funding AI Startups To Buy Its GPUs

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26 Comments on NVIDIA Allegedly Engineered Scarcity By Funding AI Startups To Buy Its GPUs

quelle surprise

The WSJ report cites an August meeting between Huang and his senior finance team,
john_.... However, as I've also said, his business tactics were truly provocative, monopolistic, and anti-consumer. Of course, while many of us sat around writing about how Nvidia operates, various people would chime in to tell us that other companies that have done far less were just as bad—granting Nvidia absolution through false equivalence and lumping everyone together. Where are those today. Most of those vocal members of this forum have disappeared.
LauncestonianSeems Mr Huang was a believer in laissez-faire capitalism.
john_Anyway, as I've said in another thread, I believe he is a major loss for the tech industry because he was forward-thinking and capable of driving progress.
freeagentWhite powder..
boidsonlyI wonder if AMD will get dragged into this scarcity debacle.
kondaminWow truly groundbreaking journalism, what has been going around the internet for ages now.
john_I read "fiance team". Anyway, as I've said in another thread, I believe he is a major loss for the tech industry because he was forward-thinking and capable of driving progress. However, as I've also said, his business tactics were truly provocative, monopolistic, and anti-consumer. Of course, while many of us sat around writing about how Nvidia operates, various people would chime in to tell us that other companies that have done far less were just as bad—granting Nvidia absolution through false equivalence and lumping everyone together. Where are those today. Most of those vocal members of this forum have disappeared.
freeagentMoney, Power, Ego, Blue pills, White powder.. It really is too bad that he chose the dark side. Sucks to be him right now.
mechtechDoes it though? Even if he looses half in a divorce he still has billions.

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