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Re:Nvidia emerges as leading investor in AI companies by ramesh31 on Monday December 11, 2023 @02:02PM (#38603942)
> So all this ‘pent up demand’ for AI (as investors) is basically the company that builds the tool?

They make the gold, not the tool. Ounce for ounce, a wafer of top end NVIDIA chips is the most valuable substance on earth.

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Re:Nvidia emerges as leading investor in AI companies by civilitty on Monday December 11, 2023 @02:14PM (#38604111)
> Ounce for ounce, a wafer of a top end NVIDIA chips is the most valuable substance on earth.

I think that would still be Californium. Even if NVIDIA could fit 300 H100 on a 300mm wafer at $40,000 a GPU a wafer would be worth $12,000,000 which would be in the same ballpark as a single gram of Californium.

Technically anti-matter would cost orders of magnitude more but there's no demand for it so it's not really valuable, whereas Californium is tightly rationed for scientific research. </silly-nitpick>

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Re:Nvidia emerges as leading investor in AI companies by matmulbro on Monday December 11, 2023 @02:09PM (#38604056)
cringe
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