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Financial Sidecar

Real-time context for xPU investment and procurement decisions.

Stock prices (AI chip vendors)

TickerCompanyRole
NVDANVIDIAGPU market leader
AMDAMDMI300X, CDNA competitor
AAPLAppleM-series, Metal ecosystem
INTCIntelGaudi, Habana
GOOGGoogleTPU, custom silicon
AMZNAmazonTrainium, Inferentia

Device street prices

Tracking real-world prices (not MSRP) helps compute true cost-effectiveness:

DeviceMSRPStreet PriceSource
NVIDIA H100 SXM$30,000Check latesteBay, broker
NVIDIA A100 80GB$10,000Check latesteBay, broker
AMD MI300X$15,000Check latestAMD direct
Apple M4 Max (laptop)$3,999Check latestApple Store

Commodity reference

SymbolRelevance
Gold (XAU)Store-of-value benchmark
Oil (WTI)Energy cost proxy
BTCCrypto mining demand affects GPU pricing
USD/CNYHuawei/Cambricon pricing

Price data updated weekly via scripts/fetch_prices.py.