New details reveal that former NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang used circular financing to fund AI startups and absorb excess TSMC wafers and memory rather than letting GPU prices drop
Few groups have been bigger apologists for their corporate abusers than capital-G Gamers. They would have followed Nvidia into hell itself so long as Huang blew even the thinnest wisps of smoke up their unwashed asses. Discovering that their hardware suppliers have only ever used them for their money has seriously hurt their egos and broken their brains.
It’s like Gamers thought they were dating the most popular kid in school, only to discover that they were only hanging out with Gamers because Gamers’ mom had an old Mustang that she like them drive. Now they’re dating someone rich college student who owns a Porche, and they’re not returning Gamers’ calls, and they’re going through all of the phase of teenage grief.
Discovering that their hardware suppliers have only ever used them for their money has seriously hurt their egos and broken their brains.
I get what you’re trying to say here, but this part is literally just how retail works. I pay you money, you give me the goods I want, and the money I pay you enables you to stay in business producing whatever it is for when I need another one.
I think basically the entirety of Nvidia’s leadership could be pushed into a volcano and the average value of humanity would slightly increase. But expecting their operation to be some kind of charity is a bit silly.
The major thing that us capital-G gamers have been pissed about, and rightfully so, is not only Nvidia’s rather well documented abuse of its consumer side customer base for a very long time but also the fact that they’re functionally the only game in town for a lot of purposes. Now it turns out that this is for completely artificial reasons, i.e. Jensen Huang formerly of Nvidia and Lisa Su of AMD are literally blood related to each other and privately agreed not to compete with each other in the high end consumer GPU market. So by design there isn’t even any competition. AMD “wins” in processors and Nvidia “wins” in video cards and both of them can therefore just charge whatever the fuck they want. That is indeed some bullshit.
This isn’t a suffering competition, you’re being ridiculous. You can say that about literally anything anybody complains about. No, while the things happening in Palestine are fucking horrific, “but worse things happen” doesn’t invalidate other peoples’ problems.
Frankly you sound like an ass even comparing the two.
Yes, it is a first world problem. That doesn’t invalidate it. Fun fact, first world problems are still problems! If you had said that in response to people pretending the inability to buy a graphics card is as bad as a kid having their leg blown off, I would have no issue with your comment. But nobody is doing that, so it’s a stupid ass argument.
An orphan, is by definition, alive. No one talks about “dead orphans”. Bruce Wayne isn’t a “live orphan”.
Anyway, my comment was about the privilege Western gamers have in 2026.
“NOAAWW! You can’t take away my high-end video cards! I have the RIGHT to play video games at a reasonable price!”
Imagine explaining your vast suffering under these filthy capitalists from your watertight, HVAC controlled domicile. Said suffering is way overblown on lemmy.
I hope you think of people with no legs when you stub your toe in the dark.
(Invalidating anyone’s suffering on the basis that someone else out there has it worse would mean that nobody else is justified to suffer than the absolutely most miserable. Suffering is an inescapable facet of the human condition, but it doesn’t mean we shoudn’t try reducing it.)
Few groups have been bigger apologists for their corporate abusers than capital-G Gamers. They would have followed Nvidia into hell itself so long as Huang blew even the thinnest wisps of smoke up their unwashed asses. Discovering that their hardware suppliers have only ever used them for their money has seriously hurt their egos and broken their brains.
It’s like Gamers thought they were dating the most popular kid in school, only to discover that they were only hanging out with Gamers because Gamers’ mom had an old Mustang that she like them drive. Now they’re dating someone rich college student who owns a Porche, and they’re not returning Gamers’ calls, and they’re going through all of the phase of teenage grief.
I get what you’re trying to say here, but this part is literally just how retail works. I pay you money, you give me the goods I want, and the money I pay you enables you to stay in business producing whatever it is for when I need another one.
I think basically the entirety of Nvidia’s leadership could be pushed into a volcano and the average value of humanity would slightly increase. But expecting their operation to be some kind of charity is a bit silly.
The major thing that us capital-G gamers have been pissed about, and rightfully so, is not only Nvidia’s rather well documented abuse of its consumer side customer base for a very long time but also the fact that they’re functionally the only game in town for a lot of purposes. Now it turns out that this is for completely artificial reasons, i.e. Jensen Huang formerly of Nvidia and Lisa Su of AMD are literally blood related to each other and privately agreed not to compete with each other in the high end consumer GPU market. So by design there isn’t even any competition. AMD “wins” in processors and Nvidia “wins” in video cards and both of them can therefore just charge whatever the fuck they want. That is indeed some bullshit.
It’s not artificial reasons. This is just how markets operate. Once they’re pared down to a handful of players, they split territory like gangs.
This is the late-stage capitalism people keep talking about. This is what it looks like. It’s the normal, natural progression of the system.
And don’t forget tech “reviewers” like Linus who badmouth Nvidia and then only show their fucking GPUs in every video that isn’t an AMD benchmark
NAILED. IT. I’d love all the people who feel they have a right to video cards explain that to a Palestinian orphan.
This isn’t a suffering competition, you’re being ridiculous. You can say that about literally anything anybody complains about. No, while the things happening in Palestine are fucking horrific, “but worse things happen” doesn’t invalidate other peoples’ problems.
Frankly you sound like an ass even comparing the two.
gaming graphics card scalping is literally a first world luxury “problem”.
Yes, it is a first world problem. That doesn’t invalidate it. Fun fact, first world problems are still problems! If you had said that in response to people pretending the inability to buy a graphics card is as bad as a kid having their leg blown off, I would have no issue with your comment. But nobody is doing that, so it’s a stupid ass argument.
I know right! I bet Palestinian orphans have even more trouble sourcing a decent graphics card.
Why should anyone explain that to a dead kid?
An orphan, is by definition, alive. No one talks about “dead orphans”. Bruce Wayne isn’t a “live orphan”.
Anyway, my comment was about the privilege Western gamers have in 2026.
“NOAAWW! You can’t take away my high-end video cards! I have the RIGHT to play video games at a reasonable price!”
Imagine explaining your vast suffering under these filthy capitalists from your watertight, HVAC controlled domicile. Said suffering is way overblown on lemmy.
I hope you think of people with no legs when you stub your toe in the dark.
(Invalidating anyone’s suffering on the basis that someone else out there has it worse would mean that nobody else is justified to suffer than the absolutely most miserable. Suffering is an inescapable facet of the human condition, but it doesn’t mean we shoudn’t try reducing it.)
If the parents die it’s an orphan. If the orphan then dies it is a dead orphan.
Chiming in with “there is greater misery in the world” is so tonedeaf. Yes, we all know. What does this has to do with the Problem that is discussed?
Go to therapy if all that is laying so heavy on you that you have to make every discussion about what’s on your mind.