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It's more of an accounting ploy, after sale to a newly created special-purpose vehicle company Amazon will be leasing the GPUs back to themselves.

Also probably works as some risk mitigation if the chips become quikcly outdated - it will be on another company's balance sheets.

These are my very quick takes, FT article still isn't available on archive.is, but this has some insight from it: https://dealroom.co/news/other-1ltaeys-amazon-seeks-to-offlo...

Much appreciated, glad to learn something new today.

It's not even that good of an article. I tried to understand what Hall Effect is and what its advantages are, but it was so vague, beating around the bush and forwarding you to other articles on their site, that I gave up and searched on the YT mechanical keyboards channels instead.

Here's a nice intro review of a Hall Effect keyboard, from Switch and Click, which explains its features and differences compared to a normal switch keyboard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNANUquoXOA