They’re trying to induce a contraction of high-end silicon demand before half the world’s fabs mysteriously go nuclear after the PLA drops troops over Taipei.
Double conspiracy: The US is trying to trick China into becoming reliant on x86 chips manufactured in “Israel” since most other x86 fabs are in Taiwan.
Sounds like a very RiskV strategy, fab foundries flounder for fickle folly.
Let’s see how it plays out for them.
I love these conspiracy theories that have popped up since AI has cumpstered the GPU market. It’s like people and gamers can’t bring themselves to the simplest conclusion which is that capitalism only “cares” about your needs insofar as it affects the bottom line. It is ready to kill a whole consumer industry if someone else is going to pay them double or tripe for it.
“Humm, it must be jeff bezos wanting everyone to use their remote servers to game, that’s who’s killing hardware.” No silly, it’s because your broke ass is NOT going to pay $6000 for a new gaming GPU but if they put that silicon into AI-training ASICs they will make that much per equivalent unit.
Streaming Farming Simulator 2026 from the Nvidia GeForce NOW servers is what Varoufakis was trying to describe, he just wasn’t familiar enough with the technical terminology.
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