• Alk@lemmy.world
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    5 months 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?

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      5 months 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.

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        5 months ago

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