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AI Compute Talk Has Become a Consumer Price Argument
ChatGPT-era hardware talk is pushing GPU buyers into the same scarcity frame that infrastructure teams already inhabit.
The institutional shift is that AI compute is no longer separated from ordinary device choice. NVIDIA’s latest hardware push, including standalone Vera CPU sales tied to a new market claim, gives the high end a language of visibility and capacity; consumer threads translate the same pressure into card choice, power supply risk, and resale fear [3][10]. That translation changes who feels the AI buildout first: not only cloud buyers negotiating allocation, but users treating every GPU purchase as exposure to the next model cycle.