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Nvidia has had the Grace Hoppers for a while now. Is this not like that?

This is cheap compared to GB200, which has a street price of >$70k for just the chip alone if you can even get one. Also GB200 technically has only 192GB per GPU and access to more than that happens over NVLink/RDMA, whereas here it’s just one big flat pool of unified memory without any tiered access topology.

We finally encountered the situation where an Apple computer is cheaper than its competition ;-)

All joking aside, I don't think Apples are that expensive compared to similar high-end gear. I don't think there is any other compact desktop computer with half a terabyte of RAM accessible to the GPU.

And yet all that cash still just goes to TSMC

They are selling the shovels for this gold rush. Also, ASML, who sells machines to make shovels.

I mean expensive relative to who, Nvidia? Both are enjoying little to no competition in their respective niche and are using that monopoly power to extract massive margins. I have no doubt it could be much cheaper if there was actual competition in the market.

Fortunately it seems like AMD is finally catching on and working towards producing a viable competitor to the M series chips.

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