
Inference Chips Are Becoming Loan Collateral in a $400M Bet
Upper90 will lend General Compute up to $400 million secured by SambaNova inference chips, not Nvidia GPUs. Why inference silicon as loan collateral is an untested bet.
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Upper90 will lend General Compute up to $400 million secured by SambaNova inference chips, not Nvidia GPUs. Why inference silicon as loan collateral is an untested bet.

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