The Weekend Reader

Snow, Mountains, Desert – that’s California! (Photo by Om. Made with iPhone 14 Pro Max.)

US and China might be in a bitter chip (and cold) war, but don’t tell that to Nvidia. The company is (or was) selling a shit ton of GPUs to Bytedance and Alibaba. Bytedance has ordered a billion dollars worth of GPUs and according to rumors, has so far “received a total of 100,000 A100 and H800 accelerator cards.” The $36,000-a-acard H800 went into production in March 2023.

(Pandaily)