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we're doing vendor financing, quite frankly, we're doing some of the greatest vendor financing we've ever seen, the chips are so good that AMD is having to loan them to the customer and also pay to rent them back, it's simply tremendous - can you believe it? www.theinformation.com/articles/amd...

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I know you did a whole write up about these chip companies, who were very explicit about how they “are not Enron.” But I’m still confused about how this is any different from SPV fraud…?

It's one thing for Nvidia to do this, another for AMD. They literally just got back on their feet after a horrible 2010s and surpassed Intel in lots of key metrics. This could ruin them.

This is how revenue growth works when customers can't afford your product: you loan them the money, book it as a sale, then pay them to keep it. The quarterlies look great until the loans default.