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EVOOhhYeah t1_jbe6csh wrote

Not only that, but received $200 million in tax benefits for all that R&D spend. Tax breaks for R&D make sense for smaller orgs, but not at this scale. NVIDIA would continue to innovate at this scale without the tax breaks to maintain their market edge.

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MichaelMJTH t1_jbe5lla wrote

The word ‘normal’ definitely deserves to be in quotation marks. Graphics card prices are in a weird spot. Manufacturing bottleneck have now loosened post the covid era electronics supply shortage. And the crypto mining crash has lead to demand decreasing dramatically, right as Nvidia had stock ready for the cards. So price deflation has happened, but it’s most noticeable mainly in the resellers/ 2nd hand markets where used stock is flooding.

However, Nvidia and their competitor AMD has on the other hand increased the prices for each tier of its latest generation flagship GPUs. This has led to a lack of the same enthusiasm for the latest GPU launch when compared to the previous generation launch in 2020. Couple that with the flood of prior generation used cards on the market, new graphics card sales in units and revenue were down year on year in 2022.

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Nathanondorf t1_jbe4rsv wrote

I bought a 1070 Ti around 6 months after the 20 series came out. I paid roughly $250 $500* at that time. Today the 3070 Ti would be the equivalent. I don’t know if the 40 series has been out for 6 months, but one 3070 Ti is currently going for about $700, and I’m supposed to believe these prices are “normal”? I guess those prices aren’t too far off, considering inflation. Still higher than ideal though.

Edit: I looked up my receipt for said purchase of 1070 Ti in 2018. Looks like I actually paid around $500. I thought I purchased two cards for that price, but I guess my wife bought her own and I remembered wrong.

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FormerKarmaKing t1_jbe49it wrote

Data center is a generic term for renting out the hardware needed to run services on the internet. Amazon’s AWS is the largest provider in the world with Microsoft and Google behind them. Competing against companies like those is obviously very hard.

NVIDIA, however, has a massive advantage when it comes to hosting software that requires a lot of GPUs. This includes graphics programs but also AI software.

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Nexustar t1_jbe466x wrote

It's the "real" bit of the costs involved in delivering product. Materials, manufacturing & distribution. But I think it's a bit flexible (can differ company to company) - but in essence should involve costs that directly mirror production quantity.

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CodmanLain t1_jbe2jka wrote

No it isn’t. There are whole unassimilated communities that are susceptible to radicalization. There’s no government onus to spread populations across the city so you end up with ghettos. Unlike the Netherlands where the government takes new arrivals and deliberately puts them in neighborhoods with high density of other nationalities

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