AI driven companies buying gaming GPU's?

[noko]

Did not see this as listed, newsworthy and maybe rather concerning for PC gamers. Crypto boom being replaced by AI boom?

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/evidence-shows-ai-driven-companies-are-buying-up-gaming-gpus

Demand for GPUs is unquestionably ramping up again as prices eclipse $70,000 per GPU in some China locales (that's for a data center H800 GPU), and leaders in the U.S. computing industry are taking to social media to complain that cloud-based GPU resources are fully booked and GPU hardware supplies are all reserved for the year ahead. Drastic times call for drastic measures, and we are beginning to see evidence that GPUs that should be heading to home desktop PC rigs are instead being snapped up by the AI industry players.

Naturally, gamers and enthusiasts will be worried about a repeat of the cryptomining craze, which decimated consumer GPU supplies: Are the crypto-bros of old destined to be replaced by the AI-bros — snapping up our precious gaming GPUs?

 

[pendragon1]

Did not see this as listed, newsworthy and maybe rather concerning for PC gamers.

it was, but in the news section for some reason and it is.

 

[noko]

it was, but in the news section for some reason and it is.

Yep, blind, carry on there.

 

[atp1916]

AI boom 100% replacing.

From the art:

Above, if you expand the tweet, you can see Hotz, who is currently leading an automated AI-driven driving assistance business called Comma AI, talk about buying up cases of AMD gaming GPUs.