While Jensen can’t be faulted for making these moves because he was keeping the best interests of the company in mind, it’s a stab in the back for gamers and hardware owners who are unable to locate any mouth-watering deals for GPUs or memory because of the perceived shortage.
I really dislike this final paragraph. In one sentence, it both attempts to absolve Jensen of all fault in the current shortage, and frames gamers and hardware enthusiasts as entitled babies crying about the lack of amazing sales. Rather than the reality of high-end GPUs requiring you to take out a loan at this point, if you can even find one. I don’t need a “mouth-watering deal”, I’ll settle for affordable, thanks.
Crazy final paragraph. The whole article is about Nvidia has artificially created scarcity for its products by funding AI start ups to buy it’s products.
It is effectively buying back its own products. This alongside the circular payment systems between AI companies and Nvidia is destined to end very very badly. It can only work while the market grows and share prices go up. It is destined to be one catastrophic collapse when things go the other way.
Few groups have been bigger apologists for their corporate abusers than capital-G Gamers. They would have followed Nvidia into hell itself so long as Huang blew even the thinnest wisps of smoke up their unwashed asses. Discovering that their hardware suppliers have only ever used them for their money has seriously hurt their egos and broken their brains.
It’s like Gamers thought they were dating the most popular kid in school, only to discover that they were only hanging out with Gamers because Gamers’ mom had an old Mustang that she like them drive. Now they’re dating someone rich college student who owns a Porche, and they’re not returning Gamers’ calls, and they’re going through all of the phase of teenage grief.
It’s all the consumer’s fault for wanting to consume.
Capitalism hurt itself in its confusion!
TIL no matter what you do it’s always justified as long as you’ve had your company’s interest on your mind
I mean bootlicking aside, they’re not wrong. Jensen’s a corpo and they will always chase profits. Sometimes stooping to borderline illegal maneuvers like this price fixing thing or the ram cartel. In an ideal world these fuckers would get prosecuted and do jail time, but as it stands we are somewhat at their whims. That’s why I don’t get this entitlement with affordable gpu’s - they’re high tech components and for a while they were more affordable but gamers are no longer the most profitable market so yhings change. There was no “betrayal” and no “abandonment” because no one owes gamers anything, just like they don’t owe the companies anything. Shit’s bkt affordable? Short of a class action lawsuit, tough luck, adapt and move on, because it looks like we’re heading back to the gpu wild west of the late 90s.
A handful of people in a recent thread tried to suggest to me that Huang at least still had gamers and hobbyists in his heart, whereas a new CEO likely wouldn’t. LOOOL. How’s that leather coat taste, coatlickers?
Turns out his CFO literally said “please stop putting all of our eggs in the AI basket and abandoning the gaming side” and got fucking mansplaining as a reward and told she was a deer in headlights. Jensen was the one that was fucking over the gamers who bootlick him at every turn.
I hope they’re feeling betrayed.
Nvidia’s been treating gamers like shit since they killed 3dfx and idiots still fanboy for them… If it hadn’t been supported by these idiots for all these years we probably wouldn’t have reached this situation
To quote his cousin, “we’re a data center company first”
Have these people been in a coma for the past 5 years?
Trump admin killed the investigation into the spy thing last year as well. There is a lot hidden under the sex scandal, and why we keep hearing about more affairs instead of this stuff.
That has everything to do with who owns and runs media.
We’re being spoon fed tasty bytes
Yeah, but by billionaires.
. . . Wait . . .
Tasty bytes? More like scraps.
From the article:
While Jensen can’t be faulted for making these moves because he was keeping the best interests of the company in mind,….
I’m pretty sure he can be faulted for manipulating the market. 😂 I’m sure there is a law somewhere that says this is illegal. Maybe start looking at anti-trust laws.
Unfortunately, the US hasn’t had a functioning government in over a decade.
Maybe start looking at anti-trust laws.
I want to beat Altman and Huang mercilessly.
While Jensen can’t be faulted for making these moves because he was keeping the best interests of the company in mind
Who the fuck came up with this bullshit? OF COURSE we can fault them. That’s the same kind of logic as saying that we can’t fault the Nazis because they were “just doing their job”.
This makes my blood boil.
Haven’t we known that Nvidia was paying people to buy their hardware for a while now?
It’s been known in the anti-AI spaces, but not necessarily in the mainstream.
Yes. But normies didn’t.
No, everyone knew, the line kept going up though so no consequence
The
arrow must go upbubble must inflate.I bought 32GB not long ago and now I want 32GB more*. These
bucketsfuckheads (ducking autocorrect) represent everything wrong with the industry.*: Partially as a proverbial middle finger to piss off Sam LLMtman
What does it mean for the immediate future of Nvidia?
Literally nothing, he wouldn’t have been able to do any of that without the board being, well, on board, and they chose a board member to temporarily replace him.
Colette Kress literally told him to stop putting too much emphasis on AI because it was ruining their finances. She got mansplaining from him as a result.
