alt Hacker NewsThere was an article on here just a few days ago about an Nvidia crypto GPU that was sold a few years ago. This lady discovered that via voltage glitches she could turn back on features that Nvidia had turned off. She had cards that were sold with only 8 gigs of VRAM enabled that actually had 80 gigs of VRAM.
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ankitg12 • today at 5:43 AM
This was the discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50451903
thin_carapace • today at 5:26 AM
selective binning of semiconductors is not a new or inherently evil practice. that being said, someone managing to get a 170hx to 80 gigs is possibly the most prominent example of unlocking manufacturer restricted features.
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Yeah I never really shared the adulation the AI community still seems to have for Jensen. To me he was always a sleazebag.