Add on a few more months before improved kernels and meaningful MFU. I write about why this is the case in my deep dive:
The Uncomfortable Truth Behind Deploying the Latest NVIDIA GPUs: MFU, Silent Data Corruption -
IMPORTANT: it is important to understand that the CoreWeave & Microsoft photos are still Engineering/Quality Samples, and there is still some time before the software stack bring-up finishes & first production tokens are generated. The VR200 & MI455 rack metric to watch out for is time to first at-scale production token TTF-(ASP)-T. You can clearly see in the CW rack photos that none of the scale-out 800G OSFP cages are even populated.
Micron has seen 6 boom & bust cycles since 2000. In 2019, hyperscaler over-ordering crashed their revenue from $30B to $21B. In 2023, the pandemic unwind cut it in half again, from $30B to $15B.
Has the AI super-cycle finally broken this pattern? Or is a reckoning coming? — especially since it's the same set of buyers, buying for the same reasons.
I analyze Micron through three lenses: Engineering, Finance, and Strategy. The current tailwinds, and the possible headwinds.
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