The AI fever seems to be reaching its peak, when the price of specialized GPU models for data centers is reaching 70,000 USD/unit in China.
Naturally, the ‘GPU thirst’ of AI companies is starting to directly affect individual users, specifically gamers.
Specialized GPU models like the Nvidia A100 are selling out globally, due to huge demand from AI companies.
In other words, the above situation is reminiscent of 2020-2021, when GPU prices peaked due to the cryptocurrency fever.
It is known that the first solid evidence of companies in the field of AI purchasing gaming GPUs comes from a tweet posted on Twitter by the once famous hacker George Hotz (also known by the nickname `geohot
Accordingly, this hacker has now become the leader of Comma AI – a business that develops automatic driving technology with the support of AI.
According to Tomshardware’s calculations, Comma AI has ordered about 60 RX 7900 XTX units, with an average selling price on Amazon of about 979 USD/unit.
The number of RX 7900 XTX GPUs ordered by Comma AI company for research purposes.
The tweet from George Hotz isn’t the first warning sign we’ve seen about the AI industry’s heating up of GPU demand.
A few weeks earlier, the price of an A800 jumped 20% almost overnight due to fears of impending sanctions.
Refer to Tomshardware
