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Nvidia allegedly engineered scarcity by funding AI startups to buy its GPUs

Nvidia allegedly engineered scarcity by funding AI startups to buy its GPUs
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Following the departure of former NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, a Wall Street Journal report alleges the company artificially inflated the GPU and memory shortage by investing in AI startups to buy its chips.

Key points

  • •The Wall Street Journal published a new report after former CEO Jensen Huang left NVIDIA.
  • •The report alleges that NVIDIA invested in AI startups to encourage them to purchase NVIDIA GPUs and build data centers.
  • •These actions are claimed to have artificially amplified the ongoing shortage of GPUs and memory.
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