• Womble@piefed.world
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    2 hours ago

    It wont be Nvidia unless they play things incredibly badly, they’re the only ones making actual profit by selling shovels in the goldrush.

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      9 minutes ago

      Yeah, but can they handle the collapse of going back to the company before the AI boom? They’ve increased in market cap 5000%, attracted a lot of stakeholders that never would have bothered with nVidia if not for the LLM boom. If LLM pops, then will nVidia survive with their new set of stakeholders that didn’t sign up for a ‘mere graphics company’?

      They’ve reshaped their entire product strategy to be LLM focused. Who knows what the demand is for their current products without the LLM bump. Discrete GPUs were becoming increasingly niche since ‘good enough’ integrated GPUs kind of were denting their market.

      They could survive a pop, but they may not have the right backers to do so anymore…

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      1 hour ago

      Yeah, but dont they also have the largest promisory debt? Havent they loaned the most most money that they dont actually have?

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          1 hour ago

          Cool, in a not super cool way. Nvidia is kinda scummy but the work they do is valuable. I appreciate you dropping the facts on me, but im not sure how to feel about them.

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            56 minutes ago

            I’m not a fan of them either, I wish AMD would step up and compete with them better (Just get ROCm into a good place FFS!), but they are definitely not one of the companies most exposed to an AI pop. They’ll stop being insanely profitable but they are not anywhere near the position of openAI and the likes who have massive negative profit.