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In my opinion, Nvidia took over the market because they picked up the pieces from SGI when the company failed. SGI had all of the engineering talent to make a w
by zerohp 11y ago
In my opinion, Nvidia took over the market because they picked up the pieces from SGI when the company failed. SGI had all of the engineering talent to make a world class 3D chip for PC gaming but SGI management was too busy clinging to the dying unix workstation market.
- agumonkey 11y agoAnd that's probably why they failed at first (NV1 chipset). They came with advanced Mathematics (quadratic patches) and CAD use cases which didn't align with the video game market at the time. It's funny because 10 years earlier, TDI released the 3D software package Explore with the same idea, bringing advanced mathematical geometry (full Nurbs), again far too early for the market. They ended up swallowed by Alias|Wavefront.
- narrator 11y agoVideo games have become such a huge phenomenon. I think they're even bigger than movies. Nobody saw that coming. They though it was all about business use cases. Tiny tiny market in comparison. Now with "deep learning" there may be a serious use case for huge clusters of GPU machines.
- agumonkey 11y agoLast night the TV news had a big segment on the candy crush acquisition. It's becoming nation mainstream and an economic matter. Can I have my GameBoy back please ?