I had a friend who got a Sun cluster for basically free when the 2000 dot com bubble burst. And when we were doing recreational math contests a couple of years later it was slower than our laptops.
So it is very likely that a load of today's GPU compute is very competitive next year or the year after?
The AI bubble bursting will kill investment in the next gen hardware in the west.
But china will come to market with its first gen that it is currently building to replace its dependency on the west and will leapfrog the west etc. China isn't really completely dependent on competing in our AI bubble, its using AI for its own things and will plough on even when the west bubble bursts. Seems obvious?
Still, there has been so much talk about the AI bubble bursting last week and this is the the best writeup.