GPU Purse

I never think thebest graphics cardswould become a fashion program line , much less some of the worst , but here we are . Over the weekend , a web site calledGPU Pursewent hold up with a itemization for a discard Nvidia GT 730 GPU — a $ 20 used GPU — that had been turn into a handbag . You ’ll just need to shell out $ 1,024 for the bag , which , according to the product page , meet a phone and come double-dyed with a long or unforesightful chain .

One tone at the website sets off dismay bells , especially for a product that ’s over $ 1,000 , but it come along there ’s some genuineness behind it . Financial Times reportsthat the GPU Purse is the brainchild of Tessa Barton , a New York Times alum and current pretraining technologist at Databricks . Barton reportedly set up a Shopify store in precipitation after a station on X ( formerly Twitter ) went viral last week with over 1.4 million impressions .

GPU Purse

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The GPU purse might be real , and it might be something that will actually show up at your doorstep if you ’re brave enough to place an order . It ’s just a complete rent - off . Barton explained to FT that the arbitrary terms is two raised to the 10th mogul — apparently due to the fact that exponent of two are of import for nervous networks . The shop also lists a purse made with Nvidia ’s H100 , which comes in at $ 65,536 — or two raised to the sixteenth power . That listing currently does n’t have any pic .

Maybe you could ensnare the bag as some kind of circumscribed - edition collector ’s token — in the Shopify listing , Barton say they are a “ limited edition . I am making like 10 more in the next few weeks . ” The bag is still in stock certificate , for what it ’s deserving , so it does n’t seem like Barton has strain “ like 10 more ” orders quite yet .

giddy as it may seem for the price , apparently there ’s a grocery store for this type of , asBarton calls it , “ blazingly fast fashion . ” At expensive Silicon Valley parties , especially since the AI gold rush and Nvidia ’s monumental rise in bloodline toll , Barton says you will be looked down upon if you wear a gamy fashion brand . “ If you wear down the GPU base , you will be come near … I do n’t know how to explicate how many mankind will talk to you , ” Barton said in an interview with the Financial Times .

Maybe if you frequent these types of political party and have a picayune Nvidia line to gas , the GPU pocketbook have good sense . For everyone else , you’re able to build your own with a $ 20 GT 730 and a , which looks shockingly similar to what Barton currently has listed for sale .