I think you'll find the fans and critics aren't the same people at all, and never have been.

School is not homework.

Yeah, except Congress is shirking its responsibilities and the bad guys are writing the rules. So there ain't gonna be any good rules.

Classic marketing treatment - Charge what the market will pay. Servers are flying out the door so hiking the prices to large profit margins is only lowering the volumes a little.

The cheap end consumer UDIMM prices have quadrupled so with HP only doubling the effective pricing I guess means they are sacrificing some of the prior profits to achieve a target volume of sales. Otherwise consumers aren't buying at all.

It can be both. The cover can be just because they believe AI will be that disruptive in the future. They are balancing the books to make stupid large investments in overpriced GPUs and power stations.

That's a big "if". It seems it is creating only $200 products too. Anything more and the products stops working entirely. And no-one is going to want to debug the results.

Sam Altman is the one who made all the ludicrous claims and expectations. Nvidia is mostly just the beneficiary. Although, obviously Jensen Huang has joined the cheerleading since.

Yes, you are summarising how the article is written. It was the big incumbent telcos that did all the layoffs, not the new player. It's a great example of what happens when tulip-mania strikes an industry. People get fired for no good reason.

He even has this little gem: "I don't expect to change any minds; that's not how minds work."

Funny, I was very much under the impression a solid argument does change minds. Of course, there's very little solidity to his arguments. He repeatedly says how poorly his results are.

Amusingly, his comments are somewhat schizophrenic if you read them. He saying both how broken the results are and how great that is because he gets them done so quickly.

For me: 20 seconds with training (32 GB) to boot menu, 12 seconds without. It's a Zen 1 (Asus Prime B350 Plus) platform.

A team that will never produce any substantial products because they'll be too brittle and bloated to maintain.

and removing the evidence it was being instructed every step of the way.

LOL. And all that happened *during* the last ice age. You could just as easily say it was the ice-age that gave us the tech.

Talk about missing the point! We've got the collective strength to flip the climate of the whole planet!