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GPU chip company started in Silicon Valley by electrical engineers with extensive design experience, right when GPUs were ready to take off. Now it's worth a $
by musicale 3y ago
GPU chip company started in Silicon Valley by electrical engineers with extensive design experience, right when GPUs were ready to take off.
Now it's worth a $1T.
- curiousllama 3y agoBut they talked about it in a Denny’s once. Who else can say they talked about a thing in a Denny’s???
- bobwaycott 3y agoI’ve talked about many things in a Denny’s. ;)
- lotsofpulp 3y agoMy apologies.
- theRealMe 3y agoI hear baseball started there. Where else would baseball have gotten the “Grand Slam” from?!?
- qup 3y agoA grand slam is when you win four world series of poker titles, and the wsop was founded in a men's room at the go kart place in Dallas.
- latenightcoding 3y agoI understand this sort of articles are for entertainment and are meant to be relatable, but this one is pretty ridiculous, what does "started in a Denny's" even mean? did Nvidia's founder teach himself electrical engineering while he was waiting tables at Denny's or something. Next time I start something I'm only talking about it at el pollo loco.
- mastax 3y agoEveryone's been to a Denny's*. It's humble and relatable. * Please do not respond that you haven't been to a Denny's. It is a figure of speech called hyperbole.
- baybal2 3y ago[dead]
- wilg 3y agoI have been to Dennys
- sublinear 3y agoI won't directly say it, but are you calling people snobs for never eating at Denny's?
- pezezin 3y agoSnobs, or from different countries. Like, I don't even think Denny's exists in Europe.
- extasia 3y agoI have been to a Dennys. (euro enjoyer here)
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- AceJohnny2 3y agoWhy are we not talking about all the other companies started at Denny's but that failed??
- khazhoux 3y agoThis is a classic example of survivorship bias. These stories never mention the many stomachs that did not survive the Denny's Super Slam Ham & Five-Cheese Omelette.
- rchiang 3y agoWell, two engineers and one mathematician IIRC. I don't expect any single article to cover all the details of a company that just passed it's 30th year. And even then, they're missing bits of lore, like the CEO playing ping pong as a teenager (see https://engineering.stanford.edu/news/jen-hsun-huang-nvidia-co-founder-invests-next-generation-stanford-engineers https://engineering.stanford.edu/news/jen-hsun-huang-nvidia-...). This WIRED article from 2002 gives an interesting snapshot of the same company and CEO: Meet Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, the man who plans to make the CPU obsolete. https://www.wired.com/2002/07/nvidia/ - Quote: "What we can do in the next five years is going to blow your mind. In 10 years, we should be bigger than Intel." (which took until July 2020) Then you can see how things evolved by the 2009/2010 timeframe, plus where they thought they might be headed: Mercury News interview: Jen-Hsun Huang, co-founder of Nvidia https://www.mercurynews.com/2009/10/09/mercury-news-interview-jen-hsun-huang-co-founder-of-nvidia/ I’m Prepared for Adversity. I Waited Tables. https://archive.is/2iUbf
- giraffe-flavor 3y ago[flagged]
- thsksbd 3y agoWho worked at SGI - the top graphics company in the 90s - and had to settle for patent infringement.