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This is a very uninformed comment. As much as I hate praising big corp, NVDA played the game right. They saw the value of GPGPUs and invested heavily in CUDA,
by PartiallyTyped 3y ago
This is a very uninformed comment.
As much as I hate praising big corp, NVDA played the game right. They saw the value of GPGPUs and invested heavily in CUDA, sponsored universities and research labs when the DL boom happened, helped all ML frameworks into incorporating CUDA (dl or otherwise), has done a lot of work on cudNN, sparsity, and has published countless papers.
It didn't simply "turn out", and claiming such is doing a disservice to all the people who made that reality.
Intel could have very well built accelerators and GPUs, but they didn't. AMD also didn't even though they had a GPU division as well.
- manquer 3y agoHardly , this is not about nvidia doing the foundation to make their own luck . It is about those industries taking off in a big way. Nvidia has zero contribution towards tranformers which was the driver behind the rise of AI or towards all the money that flowed in crypto during the low interest era. The point has all to do with how they have been part of two cycles of boom unrelated to their product. They are not AWS to have driven the cycle by their product itself , they have only capitalized on it with their good work .