This timeline seems completely wrong to me. Nvidia’s cudnn has been the only game in town for NN research since I have been in the field, and predates ethereum

This timeline seems completely wrong to me. Nvidia’s cudnn has been the only game in town for NN research since I have been in the field, and predates ethereum and the crypto bull run by a few years. If anything they didn’t waver and jump too hard on the crypto bandwagon when the craze was at its height.