Posadas [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net to Chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-21 day agoSpin up that pair production and rev up your beta decay; daddy Altman says the chat bot needs new electrons to make more computehexbear.netimagemessage-square47fedilinkarrow-up1100arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up1100arrow-down1imageSpin up that pair production and rev up your beta decay; daddy Altman says the chat bot needs new electrons to make more computehexbear.netPosadas [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net to Chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-21 day agomessage-square47fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarehalfpipe [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·23 hours agoChina spent the past five years building a massive semiconductor industry almost from scratch. The US spent it building a bunch of data centers that will all be shuttered once the AI bubble bursts.
minus-squareDrewfro66@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·17 hours agoUpside - when the AI bubble bursts, GPUs will drop to like a tenth of their current price
minus-squarebuckykat [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·12 hours agoDownside - they’re mostly server GPUs that don’t even have video outputs
minus-squareElysia [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·edit-223 hours ago Who would want Chinese semiconductors if they don’t have anything to conduct without American electrons?
China spent the past five years building a massive semiconductor industry almost from scratch. The US spent it building a bunch of data centers that will all be shuttered once the AI bubble bursts.
Upside - when the AI bubble bursts, GPUs will drop to like a tenth of their current price
Downside - they’re mostly server GPUs that don’t even have video outputs