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I believe HPC still accounts for under 10% of Nvidia's GPU sales, so it is almost certainly true that there's no way it could be a profitable business if the R&
by jsnell 11y ago
I believe HPC still accounts for under 10% of Nvidia's GPU sales, so it is almost certainly true that there's no way it could be a profitable business if the R&D couldn't be shared with the gaming and workstation GPUs. On the other hand, the HPC GPUs are supposed to have by far the best margins of any of their products. So talking about "subsidizing" seems totally misguided.
- phreeza 11y agoDo you have a source for that 10% figure?
- jsnell 11y agoSure, look at the "revenue by markets" slide here: http://www.anandtech.com/show/10050/nvidia-announces-q4-fy-2016-results-record-quarter-and-record-year http://www.anandtech.com/show/10050/nvidia-announces-q4-fy-2...
- krapht 11y agohttp://www.anandtech.com/show/9500/nvidia-fy-2016-q2-results http://www.anandtech.com/show/9500/nvidia-fy-2016-q2-results The commentators on HN are vastly overestimating the size of the machine learning market compared to the size of the gaming market.
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