@ErickaSimone @osxreverser i think this might be backwards.

nvidia is a fabless semiconductor company who surely would have had the shortages from COVID present in the institutional memory.

since they don't have a fab, the only thing they can do is commit to buy TSMC's production. if they did that late during peak FOMO pricing, they now created a shortage by buying up all of the capacity.

with that excess of chips, funding the next generation of buyers (legality & ethics aside) makes financial sense