Asset class / ComputeUnit: GPU-hourVol. 01

GPU COMPUTE .TRADE

Fig. 1 · GPU die, 144 SMs, 6 × HBMLive, 1-bit

Oil trades in barrels. Power trades in megawatt-hours. Intelligence trades in GPU-hours, and it needs a market with a name.

§1 The commodity

From pixelsto parameters.

Every AI model is built from one raw material. It used to draw triangles for games. Now it is the scarcest resource in technology.

199901 · PixelsBuilt to draw triangles
The graphics processing unit arrives as a dedicated chip for 3D games. Its trick: thousands of small, identical calculations at once, one per pixel.
200702 · ProgrammableGraphics card, general computer
CUDA lets developers program GPUs directly. Physics, finance and biology start running on hardware designed for games.
201203 · NeuronsDeep learning wakes up
A neural network trained on two consumer GPUs wins the ImageNet challenge by a wide margin. Networks and GPUs become inseparable.
201704 · AttentionOne architecture for everything
The transformer turns language, images and code into the same kind of maths. Bigger models keep getting better, so demand for compute stops having a ceiling.
202305 · ScaleCompute becomes the bottleneck
Frontier models train on clusters of tens of thousands of GPUs. Access to compute decides who can build, and how fast.
Next06 · The exchangeCompute, priced by the hour
Spot, reserved, forward. When a resource is scarce, standard and in demand, it gets a market. GPU compute is that resource.

Fig. 2 · 1999 · One die, one pixel per core01/06

Board · compute · live01/04

The unit: one GPU, for one hour.

§2 The floor

InstrumentSpec$ / GPU·h24 h

Simulated prices for illustration. Not market data, not an offer to trade.

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Select an instrument on the board to chart it. Bids in ink, asks in orange.

§3 Reading the name

GPU	/ˌdʒiː.piːˈjuː/ noun	Graphics processing unit. A chip built for parallel work, now the engine of AI training and inference.
Compute	/kəmˈpjuːt/ noun	Processing capacity as a resource: measured, provisioned, priced and consumed.
.Trade	/treɪd/ noun, verb	The act of buying and selling. A top-level domain that says marketplace before the page even loads.

§4 Who should own it

01
GPU rental marketplace
Match idle data-centre capacity with teams that need it today.
/rent
02
Compute exchange
Spot and forward contracts for GPU-hours, with an order book.
/spot
03
Neocloud provider
A brand that tells buyers exactly what you sell.
/cloud
04
Infrastructure fund
Financing, leasing and trading of AI hardware as an asset.
/fund
05
Market data & index
The reference price for a GPU-hour, published daily.
/index

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