Nvidia announced on August 13, 2026, that its A100 GPUs, launched in 2020, will remain effective through 2029 thanks to the CUDA software ecosystem. CEO Jensen Huang delivers a seemingly contradictory message: encouraging customers to buy new Blackwell chips while reassuring them about the lasting value of existing hardware. CoreWeave, an AI cloud infrastructure company, signed a rental contract for A100 GPUs through 2029, demonstrating that sophisticated customers see multi-year commercial value in older hardware. The secondary market for A100 and H100 GPUs remains active, driven by growing demand for inference workloads, which are less demanding than model training.
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