Scratching the Lottery Ticket
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Every graphics card is unique. Not in a ’every GPU is beautiful’ way, but in a physics way.
Born from Sand # Your RTX 4090 started as sand. Actual sand, refined into silicon so pure that only one in a billion atoms is an impurity. That silicon gets sliced into wafers thinner than a human hair, then blasted with ultraviolet light through masks that print transistors smaller than a virus.