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 th

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.