Therefore, it is a great honor for all entrepreneurs who rely on Wall Street to receive his call.
Howard didn’t even know the other person’s full name. He just smiled and said in an unquestionable tone: “I’m calling you because I need your help with something. The one you produced is used to provide computing power for the AI model. Can you prepare 40,000 graphics cards for me within three days?”
The other party was startled and asked quickly: “Mr. Rothschild…the graphics card you are talking about…is it H100?”
“That’s right!” Howard said immediately: “This is the graphics card, 40,000 of them, we need it within three days. Can you solve it?”
The other party said in a very embarrassed tone: “Mr. Rothschild, this graphics card is indeed very popular now, and our orders have been queued up…”
“Stop it.” Howard said calmly: “I’m calling you to solve the problem, not to hear you talk about how popular your products and orders are. You just need to tell me, three days, 40,000 pieces, can If it can’t be solved, I, Howard Rothschild, owe you a favor, if not, then I will stop wasting each other’s time.”
After saying that, Howard added: “Of course, if you can solve part of it, then just tell me the number and how much can be solved in three days.”
The other party did not expect that Howard would be so decisive and decisive, leaving no room for him to complain.
However, the figure of 40,000 in three days is indeed too outrageous.
In all walks of life, as long as it is a hot-selling product, it will be difficult to keep it in stock, unless it is deliberately hoarding to raise the price.
This kind of shameless thing is often done by small and medium-sized companies or large companies with no structure, but after all, Nvidia’s market value is approaching two trillion US dollars, and it is impossible to engage in such low-level marketing methods at this time.
Therefore, except for the graphics cards that have not yet been produced, Nvidia currently has finished products that are ready for delivery.
Since the chips of the H100 graphics card are manufactured by TSMC, the chips are shipped from the other side of the world to the United States. They are then repackaged by Nvidia’s own production line and delivered uniformly by them.
For example, Company A ordered 3,000 graphics cards last year, and these 3,000 graphics cards were delivered in three installments. Now, there may be exactly 1,000 graphics cards that have already arrived, and they are preparing to notify the other party to pick up the goods. Only these 1,000 graphics cards will remain in Nvidia’s hands temporarily.
Normally, according to the current production capacity, the number of graphics cards that can be delivered every day is around four to five thousand.
The key is that many companies have very strong demand for this graphics card, and there is no need to notify them to pick up the goods. They usually go to the delivery center of the assembly plant to pick up the goods two or three days in advance, and some even fly directly to the assembly plant by helicopter. As soon as the graphics card was delivered offline, it was immediately taken to his company by helicopter.
After all, AI is now the biggest trend among technology companies in the world. Not to mention the world’s top companies, even small and medium-sized enterprises in Silicon Valley are tightening their belts and purchasing H100 graphics cards to try to train their own AI models. , some companies have even announced All In AI, so the demand for this graphics card has never been stronger.
However, the total number of graphics cards ready to be delivered is only more than 10,000.
He could only grit his teeth and said: “Mr. Rothschild, we here can see the production, packaging and delivery status of all H100 graphics cards in real time. Currently, all the graphics cards that we have not yet delivered to customers, there are only There are more than 11,000 graphics cards. There are almost 13,000 graphics cards that can be offline in the next three days. I can make my own decision and give you all these graphics cards. I will find a way to appease the customer, but you want 40,000 graphics cards. , I really can’t do this…”
Howard didn’t hesitate and said directly: “Okay, you can help me collect 25,000 yuan. I will not miss you the money. I will think of other ways for the rest.”