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Just to add to what you're saying, the Acquired podcast has a couple long-form episodes on Nvidia and its competition: https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/nvidia-
by nequo 3y ago
Just to add to what you're saying, the Acquired podcast has a couple long-form episodes on Nvidia and its competition:
https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/nvidia-the-gpu-company-1993-2006 https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/nvidia-the-gpu-company-1993...
https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/nvidia-the-machine-learning-company-2006-2022 https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/nvidia-the-machine-learning...
CUDA itself is also a non-negligible factor in their success.
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoCUDA wasn't even a thing when 3dfx went bust. Work on what was to become CUDA started at Berkely by a phd student sometime in 2000. CUDA first released to the general public all the way in mid-2007.
- nequo 3y agoYou’re right. 3dfx is an earlier story.
- silverlake 3y agoIt was Ian Buck @ Stanford, I think. I remember a professor from Stanford gave a talk at my grad school around 2000 about GPUs for scientific computing. Blew me away. One of the few talks I remember.