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Its US specific but there is the very real danger for non-US customers. Brands may increase prices globally to avoid slamming US customers with the full tariff price. ala spread the pain. You can see that logic in the prices listed. Some items have a higher price increase than others in an...

Small time scalpers not getting the return they wanted and just returning it to break even?

What part of their business even needs AI? Like seriously they are a POS terminal and copy n' paste online checkout provider. This feels like another "add .com to end of it" BS marketing push.

Bingo. Even if Apple discovered Star Trek replicator technology they will NEVER lower their price once they realize customers will continue to buy. We already saw proof of this with COVID price surges that never went away. Its only if over all profits go down from lower sales will they even...

The raw GPU die is tariff free (for now) the completed GPU assembly is not.

They definitely have Prime accounts. Considering how many of them are drop shippers they need the fast delivery time and no freight cost. Scalpers flip more than just GPUs. So really this is just another move in the gradual transformation of Amazon into a membership only store.

Despite the extreme annoyance with my GPU arriving via FedEx. It looks like I got really lucky and ordered right in the sweet spot between the old model exiting and everyone waiting for the new model to come in. Got it $10 less than MSRP. Still a rip off price but better than paying scalper...

Except some games are like that deliberately, Minecraft being one of them. They want players to experiment to figure out how the system works. Honestly if a system like this actually takes off all its going to do is teach programmers to not explain how their own games work at all. Because...

Great now Clippy can help me write a letter in-game too. 📎

War economy has vastly more to do with it

lol you mean like NAFTA? The thing that Trump HATES. The thing that FOX News has spent the last 40 years demonizing and blaming for every lost job. Their objective is not to expand trade. Its to end trade. Because if no foreign options you have no choice but to pay their monopoly prices.

Feels like it would better to describe products like this as an SPU (Scientific Processing Units) as opposed to a GPU. Or something in that vein.

I guess it depends on what a "regular" amount of test wafers is? So this could be a nothing article or it could mean Intel is putting in serious hours on R&D to get back ahead and performing tests back to back.

All the big tech companies make their own custom servers. Facebook does, Google does, Microsoft does, Amazon does. Its for their own internal consumption, not something they will ever sell to other companies. This is really Apple announcing they aren't going to buying Nvidia GPUs to run their...

GamersNexus has put out a bounty to acquire some of these defective units so they can test them.