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...well, Amazon just likes selling shovels to miners...
by ForHackernews 7y ago
...well, Amazon just likes selling shovels to miners...
- rolltiide 7y agoI'm not sure I really understand that happening in this case, the contest seems to want people to create new hardware, so this wouldn't use Amazon infrastructure. It is a partial subsidy to the winner. So they aren't really selling shovels they're paying people to develop better shovels.
- wmf 7y agoAmazon wants people to create bitstreams that run on FPGAs rented from Amazon. They're paying people to develop more demand for their shovels.