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Re:Using voltage glitching to unleash the A100 in my mining ... by IncreasePosts on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @11:47AM (#50455501)
Imagine a world without this, where nothing was hamstrung and there was only one price point instead of a hamstrung low price and a nonhamstrung high price.

That one price would be somewhere between the low price and the high price. So, the world you want to live in would be one where "the poor" who currently pay the low price would need to pay more. And "the rich" would get a discount from their high price they pay currently. That seems morally repugnant beyond words.

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Re:Using voltage glitching to unleash the A100 in my mining ... by Grimeton on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @02:32PM (#50457443)
Best not to imagine because they're both sold way past the manufacturing cost and I'm not under the impression that nvidia puts all the money back into development.

At least not the development of GPUs.

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Re:Using voltage glitching to unleash the A100 in my mining ... by IncreasePosts on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @03:08PM (#50457970)
The margins are irrelevant here. If Nvidia sold them for the exact cost of manufacturing, people would just scoop them up and re-sell them to the highest bidder. So in the case of 0% margin, some useless middle-man would get to profit.
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