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I don’t understand your point that Nvidia (or ATI) would have gone under if it weren’t for deep learning or crypto. Crypto on GPU was only a relatively short l
by TomVDB 6y ago
I don’t understand your point that Nvidia (or ATI) would have gone under if it weren’t for deep learning or crypto.
Crypto on GPU was only a relatively short lived flash in the pan, and deep learning has only been a meaningful revenue generator in the past 5 years or so.
GPUs were doing just fine without that.
- PaulHoule 6y agoDemand for crypto bent the demand curve at a time when GPU manufacturers needed cash and an optimistic outlook to tell investors. The astonishing thing was the long life of the 10-series; if the 10-series was an airplane it would be the 737. Hardware innovation has usually gone faster with GPUs, but the long life of the 10-series realized that performance because software had a chance to catch up.
- TomVDB 6y agoThere’s a steady ~2 year cadence at which new GPU families are introduced. The 10 series was nothing out of the ordinary. Kepler - Maxwell: 28 months Maxwell - Pascal: 20 months Pascal - Turing: 25 months Turing - Ampere: ?, but rumors have if for sometime September, so ~25 months And Nvidia has never been in need of cash. The crypto boom was just a nice extra boost, followed by a nasty bust. One could very argue that the crypto boom was a net negative.