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title: "Vendor credit: what it means · The AI Compute Race · DRYBURGH"
source: https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/vendor-credit
description: "Vendor credit: A seller's support for its buyers' purchases, through investments, guarantees, warrants or promises to buy back capacity."
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# Vendor credit

What does “Vendor credit” mean?

Vendor creditA seller’s support for its buyers’ purchases, through investments, guarantees, warrants or promises to buy back capacity. NVIDIA’s is the book’s leading case. *Chapter 12.*

From *The AI Compute Race*. [Read the book](https://dryburgh.com/vol1#buy)

## Where the book uses it

- [Chapter 12 — Cross-Examination](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/notes/chapter-12)The book’s own thesis put on trial: five claims, each scored against the record and given a dated test that could prove it wrong.

## Related terms

- [Abilene](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/abilene)
- [Announced against energized](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/announced-against-energized)
- [Campus ledger](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/campus-ledger)
- [Consent as a race](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/consent-as-a-race)
- [Conversion, prevention](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/conversion-prevention)
- [Credit protection](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/credit-protection)
- [Cross-examination](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/cross-examination)
- [Destructive finance](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/destructive-finance)
- [Evidenced](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/evidenced)
- [Falsifier](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/falsifier)
- [H100](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/h100)
- [IT load](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/it-load)

From the glossary of The AI Compute Race.

- [Campuses](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger)
- [Tests](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/tests)
- [Scorecard](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/scorecard)
- [Data](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/data/releases)
- [Chapter by chapter](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/companion)
- [The record at a glance](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/observatory)
- [The machine](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/machine)
- [One campus, four futures](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/hyperion)
- [Glossary](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary)
- [People](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/people)
- [Sources](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/sources)
- [Notes](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/notes)
- [Where the book was wrong](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/corrections)
- [Where its sources were wrong](https://dryburgh.com/corrections?book=vol1)
- [The Paper](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/paper)
- [Consent](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/consent)
- [Who builds and pays](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/parties)

*The AI Compute Race: Five Races, One Machine* is a book by Lee S. Dryburgh, the first volume of THE COMPUTE ECONOMY, published by Dryburgh, an imprint of Contestra OÜ, Tallinn, Estonia; its record closes on 8 November 2026.

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