All that bending over with a leather jacket on and nothing to slow for it.

  • @Blade9732
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    They sold out because there weren’t any. UFD tech waited in line at micro center, until they found out how few were available. I believe Steve has a video on calling it a paper launch. The alternative is to buy 4080’s and even 3080’s, until the price becomes too high on used and older GPUs. We saw that happen during covid. Yes, Nvidia makes all kinds of chips, GPUs and especially high end ones are a very small part. A very large and growing segment of Nvidea is also vehicles, which in America is now tariffed on Mexican and Canadian production an additional 25%. Almost all portable electronics have chips from Taiwan or China in them. We are already in a trade war with China, so now we are staring one with the alternative? OpenAI can move to Vancouver all they want, but I bet the 25% tariffs from there will hurt also. Plus, If AI firms don’t need as many of the AI chips, as recently shown, then that market goes down. Google makes their own server chips with cpus produced in… Taiwan.

    These tariffs, if not removed, will crash the US economy and possibly the global economy with it. Good luck everyone! or as POTUS says " Jesus didn’t need electricity".

    • @Blue_Morpho
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      Where are we going to buy TSMC chips from? Samsung and Intel are behind in manufacturing. There is no alternative so American companies will pay the tariff. It isn’t a tax on foreign companies. It’s a tax on American consumers.

      Consumers will see 25% higher prices. It will crash the economy. But again, it is Americans who pay tariffs. It is Americans who will suffer.

      If a company imports Nvidia chips into Canada they don’t pay American tariffs. Tariffs are only paid when those chips are sold into the US. Trump is giving a competitive advantage to Canadian tech companies.

      • @Blade9732
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        You are correct. I know it is a tax that will be paid by us. These will probably collapse the US economy. I give it 8 months. Then another 6 to start wiping out the rest of the worldwide markets. Maybe two years before we become a warring shithole with nukes.