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Memory is nearly half the manufacturing cost of a B200

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Epoch AI estimates memory accounts for nearly half the manufacturing cost of an NVIDIA B200 GPU, reducing the logic die to a minor line item.

Reporting date: 2025-12-11 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to December 11, 2025 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

A cost-structure inversion: the accelerator’s value migrates from logic to memory.

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Memory is nearly half the manufacturing cost of a B200
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Reporting date: 2025-12-11
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2025-12-11-memory-half-b200-cost
Claim: Epoch AI estimates memory accounts for nearly half the manufacturing cost of an NVIDIA B200 GPU, reducing the logic die to a minor line item.
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- Welcome to December 11, 2025 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-december-11-2025
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