alt Hacker News>These GPUs are treated like toilet paper, you use them and throw them away, nothing you will give to the next generation.
I'm guessing this may be highly dependant on what the bathtub curve looks like, and how much the provider wants to spend on cooling.
Of course with Nvidia being a near monopoly here, they might just not give a fuck and will pump out cards/servers with shitty reliability rates simply because people keep buying them and they don't suffer any economic loss or have to sit in front of a judge.
Be interesting to see what the error rate per TFLOP (no /s, we're looking at operations not time) is compared to older generation cards.
> Of course with Nvidia being a near monopoly here, they [...] will pump out cards/servers with shitty reliability rates simply because people keep buying them and they don't suffer any economic loss or have to sit in front of a judge.
Presumably this can't last that much longer, because the people that are buying/running these are already taking on loads of debt/venture capital to buy the past/current round of hardware without seeing much revenue from it. It's much harder to ask investors for multiples of your annual revenue just to maintain your current capabilities than it was a couple years ago to ask for many multiples of your revenue to expand your capabilities dramatically.