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[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 131 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Because the fuckers realised they can just keep them priced like this and people will still buy them

[–] henfredemars 73 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They literally don’t care if people buy them or not. Overwhelmingly profit is in the server and enterprise areas now.

Some people will still buy at those high prices and they are more than happy to stick with that small slice.

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Another reason to look forward to the AI bubble popping.

[–] FishFace@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Even assuming it does, it won't be for a good while before it comes through to GPU prices.

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Oh for sure. But seeing NVidia's share prices collapse will be soothing in other ways.

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Exactly. Whatever they sell at those prices is good. They just don't care about people who cannot shell out thousands for a gpu.

[–] chunes@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I know it's fundamentally the same kind of calculation but I really hope someone can build some hardware that's good at graphics but bad at crypto/ai/whatever.

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

We just need the AI bubble to burst

[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The relationship between supply, demand, and price has been fundamentally damaged.

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 9 points 1 day ago

🌍 🧑‍🚀🔫

Always has been.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It always has been. It's just worse now. The haves have always had all the power in a "free market" system.

[–] FishFace@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why doesn't a 4090 cost $1,000,000?

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It doesn't need to. It's already unaffordable.

[–] FishFace@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Doesn't "need" to? What does that even mean?

If the manufacturer had all the power in the relationship, the product would cost even more.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You don't get to be worth 5 trillion dollars by giving out discounts...

[–] azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

Quite the contrary! They effectively sell their cards at a ~20% discount to a bunch of AI companies by "investing" in the companies for a promise to use that money to buy their cards.

It's as dumb as it sounds and textbook unsustainable economic bubble behavior, but NVidia don't care because more sales = more stonks = more money to "invest" = more sales = more stonks = more yachts for Jensen. So what if it makes 1929 look like a walk in the park, it's not their problem.

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Yeah sadly. Then sell out to big corpos doing AI and neglect the original audience for your products.