[FRIAM] Yeeah Coin Miners made it hard to get parts

[Marcus Daniels]

It is unbelievable to me the resources Tesla is expending on machine learning and automatic driving.    They've transcended GPUs (12,000 wasn't enough) and are designing their own chips for custom supercomputers now.

https://youtu.be/j0z4FweCy4M?t=6324

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https://www.windowscentral.com/roughly-25-graphics-cards-went-crypto-miners-and-speculators-first-quarter-2021-according-report

TLDR: GPU's get used in a lot of places. I didn't know tesla used them for tensor processing. Or they needed tensor flow processing at all. Would that be for the self driving mode? Anyway: a big kvech in gaming cercles: no parts to get even needed  part replacements since a lot is in the hands of crypto minners, or just available. I'll give this a bit of a bullwhip rating.

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/06/19/crypto-miners-are-probably-to-blame-for-the-graphics-chip-shortage
as well

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