At the pricing extreme, Google could make their TPUs free to use and charge elsewhere in their cloud. This shows that literal pricing is pretty irrelevant.
AWS yes. Nvidia, not so sure. When you buy a 1080ti you are competing with gamers and miners (and maybe others). There's nothing to subsidize, in fact those cards are selling above MSRP, because they aren't selling an ecosystem but a physical card.
> When you buy a 1080ti you are competing with gamers and miners (and maybe others). There's nothing to subsidize, in fact those cards are selling above MSRP, because they aren't selling an ecosystem but a physical card.
Those cards are also irrelevant to the comparison as they can't be bought in large capacities for ML workloads. We're talking about Titan-V's and DGX-1's here.