What is WPG's Core Competitiveness? Cheating Can't Be Beat! If Necessary, We'll Hunt Them Down No Matter How Far!

At present, A100 chips could still be obtained through legitimate channels within the Xia Kingdom, but these so-called "legitimate channels" only offered inventory that had been stocked before the sales ban.

Such inventory was extremely expensive, even reaching as high as fifty thousand dollars per chip—far exceeding NVIDIA's official suggested retail price and carrying a severe premium.

If Five Watches wanted to use such inventory to build new internal servers, the associated cost would be relatively high.

But if An Wuyang could bring in A100 chips—or even the latest-generation H100 chips—through special channels, the cost would be drastically reduced.

As it happened, An Wuyang really did have such channels!

'An Wuyang: How many A100 or H100 chips do you need?'

'Ye Tianling: At least 30 A100s or 6 H100s.'

'Ye Tianling: If President An can get 30 H100 chips, it'll be very difficult for us to be breached when we face hacker attacks in the future.'

The A100 chip had a computing power of 312 trillion floating-point operations per second;

The H100 chip could reach 1,671 trillion floating-point operations per second.

The gap between them was more than fivefold, so if H100 chips were chosen, only one-fifth as many as the A100 chips would be needed.

If 30 H100 chips were assembled into a cluster, their computing power would rise to 50,130 trillion floating-point operations per second.

Perhaps people outside the computer industry had no real concept of that level of computing power, but comparing it with the former [World Supercomputer Rankings] gave a preliminary understanding of its strength.

In 2013, Xia Kingdom's [Tianhe-2] claimed the title of the world's number one supercomputer, yet its computing power that year was only 33,860 trillion floating-point operations per second.

That world-leading computing power was instantly crushed to scraps by a computing cluster