Last year, Wall Street finance firms started making loans, using video cards as collateral — that famously long-term asset class that solidly maintains its value over, ooh, months. Investment bank…
basically. Nvidia sometimes has off years, where a processor generation doesn’t work out. Unfortunately, this one’s coincided with a stupid bubble. So they’re shoving out number cruncher cards which are at the limits of what you can do with stacking up the previous generation of chips, and the cards are crappy and have a likely lifetime in months - because they correctly estimate their market doesn’t care.
basically. Nvidia sometimes has off years, where a processor generation doesn’t work out. Unfortunately, this one’s coincided with a stupid bubble. So they’re shoving out number cruncher cards which are at the limits of what you can do with stacking up the previous generation of chips, and the cards are crappy and have a likely lifetime in months - because they correctly estimate their market doesn’t care.