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Report Claims NVIDIA Funded AI Startups To Buy Its Own GPUs

Original: NVIDIA Allegedly Engineered Scarcity By Funding AI Startups To Buy Its GPUs

A Wall Street Journal report alleges that NVIDIA artificially inflated the ongoing GPU and memory shortage by investing in AI startups, which then used that money to buy NVIDIA GPUs and build data centers. The claim surfaced on TechPowerUp, which framed it as a deliberate engineering of scarcity, and it follows the reported departure of CEO Jensen Huang. The story is spreading widely across tech forums and news aggregators.

Why now: Fresh allegations of market manipulation by the dominant AI chipmaker, published just after reports of CEO Jensen Huang's departure, are drawing intense attention across tech media.

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