Using voltage glitching to unleash the A100 in my mining card

Re:Using voltage glitching to unleash the A100 in my mining ... by mitxela on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @09:24AM (#50453799)

It's utterly crazy that anyone outside Nvidia knows any of this, much less all of it. Has there been a years long public reverse engineering effort that I didn't hear about until now?

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Re:Using voltage glitching to unleash the A100 in my mining ... by kmike84 on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @09:56AM (#50454217)

Yes, there actually was a years long public reverse engineering effort; since 2023 there were some academic papers, solving parts of it. It has sped up a lot recently, probably due to accumulated knowledge, and due to AI use.

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Re:Using voltage glitching to unleash the A100 in my mining ... by userbinator on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @10:43PM (#50462805)

Likely due to Nvidia-powered AI use.

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Re:Using voltage glitching to unleash the A100 in my mining ... by AnthonBerg on Thursday November 12, 2026 @05:38AM (#50465402)

beautiful!

Klein-bottle-shaped leopard's eating face

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Re:Using voltage glitching to unleash the A100 in my mining ... by octoberfranklin on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @01:25PM (#50456702)

If you think about it, the effort is economically incentivized.

Buy a shitton of these things, spend a year working on the unlock. If you find one, sell the shitton at 5x higher price (which is what happened).

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