NVIDIA'S ACHILLES HEEL: INFERENCE

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Benchmark's Eric Vishria shares his email to investors about Nvidia from 2024. Nvidia's dominance holds in training, but GenAI inference is emerging as the weak spot. Purpose-built SRAM architectures from players like Groq and Cerebras deliver order-of-magnitude faster inference than GPUs, unlocking larger models, lower latency, and new use cases. As inference becomes a growing share of spend, performance gaps could shift AI compute winners away from incumbents.