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I love this, I was amongst early engineers on CUDA (compilers). NVIDIA was so well run, but boxed into a smaller graphics card market - ATI and it were forced

by ibains 6y ago

I love this, I was amongst early engineers on CUDA (compilers). NVIDIA was so well run, but boxed into a smaller graphics card market - ATI and it were forced into low margins since they were made replaceable by OpenGL and DirectX standards. For the standard fans - they resulted a wealth transfer from NVIDIA to Apple etc. and reduced capital available for R&D. NVIDIA was constantly attacked by a much bigger Intel (which changed interfaces to kill products and was made to pay by a court) Through innovation, developing new technologies (CUDA) they increased market cap, and have used that to buy Arm/Mellanox. I love the story of the underdog run by a founder, innovating it’s way to getting into new markets against harsh competition. Win for capitalism!

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enragedcacti 6y ago
Nvidia might have been an underdog once, but they are now the world's largest chipmaker, even surpassing Intel. https://www.extremetech.com/computing/312528-nvidia-overtakes-intel-as-worlds-most-valuable-chip-maker https://www.extremetech.com/computing/312528-nvidia-overtake...
- mhh__ 6y ago
  And Intel's revenue remains 700% larger than Nvidia's
- verall 6y ago
  Samsung and TSMC are both worth more. America's largest chipmaker.
justicezyx 6y ago
The comment identified the positive side of the nvidia story. Note that nvidia had not had large acquisition for many years. This acquisition can be seen as a beacon of nvidia's past struggle against the market and the competitors. For whatever happened, nvidia innovated to their success, and had enabled possibly the biggest tech boom so far through deep learning. Might be one day everyone claimed nvidia to be the "most important company" on earth.
- llukas 6y ago
  > The comment identified the positive side of the nvidia story. Note that nvidia had not had large acquisition for many years. Not correct Mellanox was bought for $7B.
  - justicezyx 6y ago
    Bad me... Poor memory!
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luxurycommunism 6y ago
I'm excited to see what technology is being brought to the table. I don't think that Nvidia will settle with being only second to Apple's CPUs in performance.

by ibains 6y ago

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enragedcacti 6y ago

Nvidia might have been an underdog once, but they are now the world's largest chipmaker, even surpassing Intel. https://www.extremetech.com/computing/312528-nvidia-overtakes-intel-as-worlds-most-valuable-chip-maker https://www.extremetech.com/computing/312528-nvidia-overtake...

mhh__ 6y ago
And Intel's revenue remains 700% larger than Nvidia's
verall 6y ago
Samsung and TSMC are both worth more. America's largest chipmaker.

justicezyx 6y ago

The comment identified the positive side of the nvidia story. Note that nvidia had not had large acquisition for many years. This acquisition can be seen as a beacon of nvidia's past struggle against the market and the competitors. For whatever happened, nvidia innovated to their success, and had enabled possibly the biggest tech boom so far through deep learning. Might be one day everyone claimed nvidia to be the "most important company" on earth.

llukas 6y ago
> The comment identified the positive side of the nvidia story. Note that nvidia had not had large acquisition for many years. Not correct Mellanox was bought for $7B.
- justicezyx 6y ago
  Bad me... Poor memory!

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luxurycommunism 6y ago

I'm excited to see what technology is being brought to the table. I don't think that Nvidia will settle with being only second to Apple's CPUs in performance.