Barebone air-cooled AI server with 7 RTX 5090 GPUs goes on sale in Vietnam prompting fears of huge price rise

• RTX 5090 with 32GB GDDR7 memory is far cheaper than the equivalent AI accelerator from Nvidia

• Several of them can be teamed together to support very large language models

• Crypto mining in the early 2020s caused prices of GPUs to spike, the same is likely to happen with AI

During the early 2020s, cryptomining was a driving force behind a lot of GPU shortages and inflated prices, as high-end graphics cards were snapped up in bulk to mine cryptocurrencies, leading to record pricing across multiple generations of GeForce GPUs...

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