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I have to give it to NVIDIA, they are great at taking advantage of various industry trends and riding them. I see it over and over again: NVIDIA out in front o

I have to give it to NVIDIA, they are great at taking advantage of various industry trends and riding them. I see it over and over again: NVIDIA out in front on a new industry trend. It is the biggest constant of NVIDIA I've witnessed over the last 2 decades. Each of these trends inevitably comes to an end, but NVIDIA internally is clearly enabling itself for the next possible trends to take advantage of.

jonas21 3y ago
The constant is that NVIDIA has been investing in CUDA for the last 2 decades, and has built up an enormous lead in terms of mindshare and existing CUDA code out there. Specific applications may vary over time, and it's NVIDIA's investment in GPGPU and CUDA that allows them to be a leader in each of these. But it's also worth noting that one of these, neural nets, have been big on NVIDIA hardware for a decade now, so it's not exactly a "trend".
- jjallen 3y ago
  Arguably AI and machine learning IS a trend. Just because it is ten years old does not mean it isn't a trend. A trend is a consistent increase or decrease, with no limits on duration.
  - capableweb 3y ago
    AI/ML is far older than a decade, more like 6 decades at this point. However, I agree that interest in it is also wildly going up and down, so maybe more correct is to say that the attention AI/ML receives is what's trending, rather than the area itself.
- bhouston 3y ago
  I was using NVIDIA before CUDA and they were always on trend even back then. First they had the fastest 3D GPUs, or at least the best advertised ones. Then they had the programmable shaders, and then NVIDIA Cg, a great GPU programming language, which was pre-HLSL/GLSL. Then they acquired AGIA, which brought them PhysX + CUDA. But even recently they have innovated with fast networking, tensor cores and RTX. They are a consistent innovation machine.

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I have to give it to NVIDIA, they are great at taking advantage of various industry trends and riding them. I see it over and over again: NVIDIA out in front o

by bhouston 3y ago

jonas21 3y ago
The constant is that NVIDIA has been investing in CUDA for the last 2 decades, and has built up an enormous lead in terms of mindshare and existing CUDA code out there. Specific applications may vary over time, and it's NVIDIA's investment in GPGPU and CUDA that allows them to be a leader in each of these. But it's also worth noting that one of these, neural nets, have been big on NVIDIA hardware for a decade now, so it's not exactly a "trend".
- jjallen 3y ago
  Arguably AI and machine learning IS a trend. Just because it is ten years old does not mean it isn't a trend. A trend is a consistent increase or decrease, with no limits on duration.
  - capableweb 3y ago
    AI/ML is far older than a decade, more like 6 decades at this point. However, I agree that interest in it is also wildly going up and down, so maybe more correct is to say that the attention AI/ML receives is what's trending, rather than the area itself.
- bhouston 3y ago
  I was using NVIDIA before CUDA and they were always on trend even back then. First they had the fastest 3D GPUs, or at least the best advertised ones. Then they had the programmable shaders, and then NVIDIA Cg, a great GPU programming language, which was pre-HLSL/GLSL. Then they acquired AGIA, which brought them PhysX + CUDA. But even recently they have innovated with fast networking, tensor cores and RTX. They are a consistent innovation machine.