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How much of Nvidia's value do you think comes from the chips? Chips are a commodity, AMD's chips have been better and cheaper than Nvidia for many years.

The reason Nvidia's value has been so inflated is the software stack and the lock-in they offer. CUDA, CuDNN, that's where Nvidia's value lies.

And obviously, now that all relevant ML frameworks are designed for Nvidia's software stack, Nvidia has a monopoly on the supply. That's why their value is being inflated so much.

And Nvidia doesn't have produce the chips themselves, that's all contracted out as well.




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