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Gauthier Roussilhe
Personal blog · gauthierroussilhe.com/en/articleshardwareeconomics
Gauthier Roussilhe's personal blog at gauthierroussilhe.com covers hardware and economics. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “The weird economics of semiconductors and GenAI”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-12, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog as a source on the economics of AI infrastructure, specifically how chip depreciation and the need for constant rebuying affect AI labs' finances. Only one comment, which cites it as support.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Explorer les écosystème numériques possibles dans un monde soutenable.
Most-linked posts?
- The weird economics of semiconductors and GenAI2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-09-10
What Hacker News says?
This comment reminds me of this paper which makes a similar argument. It claims that chips are more than just a depreciating asset you actually have to keep buying more for the economics to enable the scaling. And inherently there's going to be ups and downs. The AI labs seem to not be preparing for the depreciation nor the scaling requirements and that puts their economics into question. https://gauthierroussilhe.c…
Comment linking /en/articles/how-to-use-computing-power-faster
on “Is AI a Bubble? [Exponential View]”Submitted Digital Guide to Low Tech as a story · 55 points
HN discussionSubmitted The weird economics of semiconductors and GenAI as a story · 6 points
HN discussion