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Hard disagree. Like with everything, there are multiple factors at play, but at certain size, decisions almost don't matter, because there is no one to upset th
by A4ET8a8uTh0 3y ago
Hard disagree. Like with everything, there are multiple factors at play, but at certain size, decisions almost don't matter, because there is no one to upset the apple cart.
As a counter, look at MS, they have been around for more than 10 years and there is plenty of luck, hubris, good decisions, bad decisions that did not matter, because they effectively held a dominant position.
Being dominant equals to luck.
- Agingcoder 3y agoWell in that particular case they became dominant in the gpgpu space because they had a vastly superior offering ( cuda ), which they then capitalized on, while their competitors produced inferior products. I read my first gpgpu papers around 2005 I think , but the one company that ran with it was Nvidia. I don’t see this as luck. Once you are dominant though, you can stay that way for a long time.
- A4ET8a8uTh0 3y agoWe disagree, but that is ok. I am admittedly a little biased against nvidia. FWIW, your arguments are good. I think here it is a matter of perspective on what constitutes luck.
- Agingcoder 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrookGPU?wprov=sfti1# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrookGPU?wprov=sfti1# If you’re interested in the early gpgpu work, which interestingly enough worked both on Ati( now amd ) and nvidia hardware. I agree to disagree :-)