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I'm mildly surprised Jensen Huang hasn't either been fired or isn't facing jail time after everything that has happened. Between... * Trying to falsely sell a
by DiabloD3 2y ago
I'm mildly surprised Jensen Huang hasn't either been fired or isn't facing jail time after everything that has happened.
Between...
* Trying to falsely sell an AI future that won't come in his lifetime (hes in his 60s), and his company almost has nothing to do with this future; GPUs are a horrible stopgap for purpose-built hardware, which companies already sell and have been deployed in prod for years.
* Selling GPUs that literally are fire hazards and then helped lead the effort to hide this and threaten anyone willing to cover it in the tech news; this only lead to Streisanding it hard.
* Covering up the whole Samsung fab failure where he blamed the lack of cards on retail shelves was because of "Bitcoin miners scalping them", and then opened up him and his company up to litigation over this by their own shareholders, and then they lost in court and were forced to admit to shareholders that the cards had never existed in the first place; this one is extra insane, because a sale is a sale (doesn't matter who the cards got sold to once they leave Nvidia partner hands), but Bitcoin miners would have mined with them and Bitcoin mining on GPUs had already been dead for several years by then and Nvidia GPUs have horrible performance when it comes to such tasks; scalping or mining would have been a less profitable proposition for miners, and he also slandered miners by lumping them in with scalpers with such a flippant remark.
* Fought the Mellanox acquisition internally until someone sat him down and explained to him that everyone had a high bandwidth low latency network except Nvidia and that AMD had used Mellanox for external Hypertransport for years (but transitioned to external PCI-E as part of the Infinity Fabric rebranding) and a lot of smaller supercomputer-esque deployments switched to generic RDMA over Ethernet instead of Mellanox Infiniband, and if they want to survive at all in the enterprise space, they need this, and due to everyone switching, Mellanox was now a cheap and effective acquisition. He then relented, purchased Mellanox, and started claiming it was his idea the whole time.
... I'm still not sure why Nvidia continues to keep him around. He only owns about 4% of the company, and only about 15% of the shares are part of the Jensen personality cult. Ditching him and hiring someone actually on board with the Nvidia mission would be a huge boon to the company.