5 year old GPUs are still at crazy prices.
Plenty of businesses want in local inference and are priced out.
You can't do quality inference on such a toy. It's a myth.
A great opportunity for huawei
Nobody helps China like American corps helps China. Domestic anticompetitive behavior spurs demand for international competition
What exactly do you propose they do? Do you think they are holding back supply? Should they sell at less than market price? That's just handing the profits to scalpers/middle men.
I'm sure NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, Qualcomm, etc. would sell more hardware if they could, but they can't.