> I'm honestly much more worried about NVIDIA's overwhelming success in buying their way into the entire scientific community. They bought their way by providi

> I'm honestly much more worried about NVIDIA's overwhelming success in buying their way into the entire scientific community. They bought their way by providing software along with the hardware, and by paying developers and researchers to work full-time in improving the performance of user applications on their hardware. If you are a medium-ly important HPC application, the chances that there is an NVIDIA engineer working full-time on making it perform good on GPUs is quite large. What's worrying is that Intel and AMD haven't realized, 20 years later, that hardware without software is useless. Even if they were to make GPUs that outperform NVIDIA's hardware in raw numbers by a 10x factor, NVIDIA's GPUs would still probably be the better product to buy because of the software and support you get.