• @Alk@lemmy.world
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    1018 days ago

    Can someone explain why to a layman? Don’t they make graphics cards? I have one and it’s fine, but what else is making it so valuable?

    • @Pantrygheist@programming.dev
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      3018 days ago

      We are in an AI business explosion, they make the best hardware for those workloads and can charge whatever they want for them. Also this is not real value but investor value, so as long as the AI hype continues their value will keep increasing.

      • @AbidanYre@lemmy.world
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        18 days ago

        And that AI boom is following closely on the heels of a crypto boom that already had them pretty inflated.

      • FaceDeer
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        1318 days ago

        It’s not all imaginary, real money is being paid for AI services which in turn is being spent on GPUs.

    • partial_accumen
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      718 days ago

      High end graphics cards by themselves are some of the best computers for creating and training AI.

    • Nomecks
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      18 days ago

      They make chips that do super complex math really really fast. They also make super fast networking gear to allow a crapload of them to do super complex math together

    • @Starkstruck@lemmy.world
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      218 days ago

      Basically their stuff is good for running AI, and investors are frothing at the mouth for anything with the word AI in it rn.