Comment on Iran war cuts off helium from Qatar, and shortages will start to bite in a few weeks, threatening chip supply chains that fuel the AI boom

ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No way. Nvidia will buy them back and throw them away so they don’t flood their market, like they did for crypto booms.

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  • MalReynolds@slrpnk.net ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Or they get destroyed for tax purposes. So much waste.

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  • Vex_Detrause@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Let’s say we get access to those. What can a regular person do with them? Can we use it as a daily driver computer? Or are we talking about GPUs on the cheap?

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    • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And hard drives! They might be SAS or some stuff though, cards are a bit expensive for SAS drives, ask le and my cheap 3TB drive how we know…

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    • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      For the H100 and up? They’re headless, basically compute only, as they don’t have enough ROPs to game.

      I think the A100 technically can game, in the same way you’d use a laptop GPU not hooked up to the display. They’re kinda like giant RTX 3090/ though, so YMMV.

      They’re great at GPU compute apps though, same as any Nvidia card would be.

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    • youcantreadthis@quokk.au ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Im told some of the ram is salvageable.

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      • Siegfried@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        As i understand, its not the same ram we christians use

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• Carl@hexbear.net ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ve read that ai chips can’t be used for anything but ai, but maybe that ram will hit the market and be useful for something.

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  • Ildsaye@hexbear.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There will be a need for mass desoldering shops to transfer the ram ICs off of the datacenter boards and onto consumer ram wafers

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