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Except Nvidia stock prices (Edit: Not anymore, obviously!)
by solardev 2y ago
Except Nvidia stock prices
(Edit: Not anymore, obviously!)
- pavlov 2y agoAre GPUs still used for mining at scale that would be meaningful for Nvidia’s earnings? Ethereum switched to plutocracy, I mean proof-of-stake, years ago.
- byteknight 2y agoHave you missed the LLM wave?
- solardev 2y agoNo, no, sorry. That was all years ago. Crypto's come and gone.
- JohnFen 2y agoNvidia is riding on the AI bubble now.
- sidewndr46 2y agoFrom a business perspective, they seem to have done pretty well in that regard. Basically surfing from one bubble to the next. I seem to recall during the dot-com boom, somehow their share price was never hugely affected. It probably helps that NVIDIA is underpinned by technical competence and their products have some basic utility outside of the bubble we are currently in.
- solardev 2y agoThey made an early bet on CUDA (17 years ago!), long before it was cool to use GPUs for general computing. It paid off handsomely and soon overtook all their gaming profits. I don't think anyone else was really trying that back then, except maybe Sony with their Cell processors in PS2s (but that was never really popular aside from a limited few supercomputing experiments).
- sidewndr46 2y agoI recently compiled some software using CUDA for the first time. It's a surprisingly easy experience. The tooling is easy enough to work with. I had to tweak one compiler setting so it would produce output that would work with my particular card. That's it.