alt Hacker NewsI absolutely loathe Nvidia at this point. They've completely abandoned the core consumer that built Jensen's empire. Why not offer pre-orders of 5090s and MSRP? Why has every single drop at Best Buy gone primarily to botters and scalpers? Why not give end users half a fighting chance like EVGA used to by letting end users get in line before Nvidia crushed them?
When the AI bubble bursts, Nvidia is going to be Enron.
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> Why not offer pre-orders of 5090s and MSRP?
Because it would immediately go to scalpers anyway. Like, say the 5090 - I'm seeing prices of almost 7000€ for that thing [1]. Assuming without AI it would be priced at 1500€ - I could make about 3 months of rent just by immediately selling the GPU to the next reseller who then peddles it to some AI training farm. And in this economy, oh hell yes I would.
> When the AI bubble bursts, Nvidia is going to be Enron.
Nah. NVIDIA was a money printer way before AI was a thing. Post-collapse they will still be a money printer, just at lower speed.
The ones who are going to get fucked over hard when the AI bubble pops is pensioners, the generation who is just entering the workforce (2007ff had an aftereffect in wage depression lasting for up to a decade), and everyone who took up investments to service the AI demand (utilities, construction companies and the likes).
[1] https://www.pccomponentes.de/msi-geforce-rtx-5090-ventus-3x-...
Yeah, I will never buy an Nvidia GPU again. I assume many of their former customers feel the same way. When the bubble pops, I think Nvidia is going to feel the pain as they will have pushed many of their former customers into the arms of AMD.
> Why not offer pre-orders of 5090s and MSRP?
AI bots (probably powered by NVIDIA chips) would gobble those up in seconds.