Nvidia Is Losing Margin to the Compute Marketplace It Created

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TechCrunch argues Nvidia has become a victim of its own success: by proving compute's value, it created a market where neoclouds, power providers, and 'less interesting companies' capture rents on the periphery while Nvidia bears the R&D burden. The structural point is that commoditizing the sale of GPU-hours decouples chip margin from compute margin. For builders, the practical read is that inference price competition has more room to run than chip pricing implies.