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Re:Nvidia Reportedly Earns 1000% Profit on Every H100 GPU Sale by catchnear4321 on Monday August 21, 2023 @10:36AM (#37210105)
no, nvidia is estimated to earn that much profit. as “reported” via twex from money people.

here, the tweet in full.

> Raymond James estimates it costs Nvidia $3,320 to make a H100, which is then sold to customers for $25,000 to $30,000.

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Re:Nvidia Reportedly Earns 1000% Profit on Every H100 GPU Sale by 3cats-in-a-coat on Monday August 21, 2023 @11:04AM (#37210522)
If it was true there would immediately be competition. By “immediately” in this space I mean 2-3 years.
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Re:Nvidia Reportedly Earns 1000% Profit on Every H100 GPU Sale by wmf on Monday August 21, 2023 @03:36PM (#37214274)
There are some things that money just can't buy and apparently working drivers are one of them.
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Re:Nvidia Reportedly Earns 1000% Profit on Every H100 GPU Sale by MichaelZuo on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @12:51AM (#37218811)
No way anyone could recreate CUDA + firmware + all the other bits necessary in 2-3 years, to the same level of performance, even if given tens of billions in R&D budget.

10 years sure.

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Re:Nvidia Reportedly Earns 1000% Profit on Every H100 GPU Sale by billconan on Monday August 21, 2023 @12:03PM (#37211424)
manufacturing cost == cost?

like they don't need to pay their driver/sdk developers at all?

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