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Its hard to be excited about hardware that will only exist in the cloud before shredding.
by throwaway48476 2y ago
Its hard to be excited about hardware that will only exist in the cloud before shredding.
- p_j_w 2y agoI think this article is for Wall Street, not Silicon Valley.
- noitpmeder 2y agoWhat's their use case?
- mycall 2y agoBad timing as I think Wall Street is preoccupied at the moment.
- asdfman123 2y agoOh, believe me, they are very much paying attention to tech stocks right now.
- SquareWheel 2y agoMust be part of that Preoccupy Wall Street movement.
- killerstorm 2y agoIt might also be for people who consider working for Google...
- jeffbee 2y ago[flagged]
- varelse 2y ago[dead]
- CursedSilicon 2y agoPlease don't make low-effort bait comments. This isn't Reddit
- crazygringo 2y agoYou can't get excited about lower prices for your cloud GPU workloads thanks to the competition it brings to Nvidia? This benefits everyone, even if you don't use Google Cloud, because of the competition it introduces.
- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 2y agoI like owning things
- sodality2 2y agoCloud will buy less NVDA chips, and since they're related goods, prices will drop.
- throwaway48476 2y agoPricing is based on competitors more than demand.
- xadhominemx 2y agoYou own any GB200s?
- baobabKoodaa 2y agoYou will own nothing and you will be happy.
- simondotau 2y agoSeriously yes. I don’t want to own rapidly depreciating hardware if I don’t have to. I don’t want to own open source software and I’d prefer if culture was derived from and contributed to the public domain. I’m still fully on board with capitalism, but there are many instances where I’d prefer to replace physical acquisition with renting, or replacing corporate-made culture with public culture.
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- justanotheratom 2y agoexactly. I wish Groq would start selling their cards that they use internally.
- xadhominemx 2y agoThey would lose money on every sale
- foota 2y agoPersonally, I have a (non-functional) TPU sitting on my desk at home :-)
- prometheon1 2y agoYou don't find news about quantum computers exciting at all? I personally disagree