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I'm assuming they're implying that this "theft" was something else: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/12/340000-of-nvidia-rtx-3090-graphics-cards-were-stolen
by myself248 6y ago
I'm assuming they're implying that this "theft" was something else: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/12/340000-of-nvidia-rtx-3090-graphics-cards-were-stolen-in-china/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/12/340000-of-nvidia-rtx...
- paulmd 6y agoWhich is still partners. And that's like, a single container getting lost. $340k is a far cry from billions as well. I'm assuming he's referring to an RBS article which was mischaracterized by Barrons and then widely broadcast in the tech media... the RBS article looked at hashrate growth since launch and attempted to estimate the number of 30-series GPUs sold (the number they came up with was about 7% of gaming revenue). Barron's then took that number and trumpeted it as NVIDIA selling cards directly to miners when that's not what the original article said at all, they were just estimating how many cards ended up mining from any source, and it was sub-10% regardless. But of course nobody actually went back and looked at the original article, and because it's NVIDIA everyone is completely willing to give full faith to any claims that make them look bad. Lie goes around the world before the truth has its pants on, etc. But if there's an article I'm willing to read it.
- caspper69 6y agoI was indeed referring to the RBS article, which as you mention was bunk. I read it in passing several months ago. And it was $175 million they estimated, I must've crossed wires with the recent $1B shareholder suit. Thank you for making me do a little leg work. Perhaps I should have done that in the first place.