[sschueller]

We can buy old chips at any volume. The restriction is only on the latest and greatest.

DeepSeek has shown that you can achieve the same or better result on old hardware with less computing power.

[karmasimida]

H800 is essentially H100, and it is not old. And GPUs do expire, it breaks down constantly. You need to swap them in and out.

Buying old chips isn't related to deepseek what so ever, you can buy A100 also.