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This is so dumb. A100's were released in 2020 iirc. They are still used in droves and extremely valuable. If meta/goog/msft/whoever want to give me all their A1

• hakfoo 1y ago
  If you have a truck full of A100s, it's "extremely valuable" but also perishable goods. Right now, any workable AI hardware is valuable because the market is not presently saturated, and people are in a "buy what you can get" mindset. Once the market is reasonably saturated, people will get more selective. Older parts will be less desirable-- less efficient, less featureful-- and if you have trucks full of them to dump on the market, it's going to depress the price. It's like the PC market of 30 years ago. You got a new Pentium-100, but you could still sell on the old 386/16 for a fair amount of cash because for someone else, it beats "no computer". That market doesn't really exist anymore-- today, you may as well just leave a Haswell or Ryzen 1000 box at the curb unless you want to spend 6 weeks dealing with Craigslist flakes for $30.
  • danielmarkbruce 1y ago
    And when that is the situation they can change their depreciation schedules. The fact remains, the current depreciation schedules for current hardware aren't unreasonable.