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I think this undersells the story. NVidia's success is built on innovating and scaling for 20 years. Vastly oversimplifying it: - CUDA conception in 2006 to bu
by TrainedMonkey 2y ago
I think this undersells the story. NVidia's success is built on innovating and scaling for 20 years. Vastly oversimplifying it:
- CUDA conception in 2006 to build super computers for scientific computing.
- CUDA influencing CPU designs to be dual purpose, with major distinction of RAM amounts (for scientific compute you need a lot more RAM compared to gaming)
- Crypto craze driving extreme consumer GPU demand which enabled them to invest heavily into RND and scale up production.
- AI workload explosion arriving right as the crypto demand was dying down.
- Consistently great execution, or at least not making any major blunders, during all of the above.
- no_wizard 2y agoIt’s more no major blunders + no real major competition, they have not consistently “executed great”, it’s dumb luck + no extremely stupid decisions. It doesn’t mean they didn’t make a bunch of mistakes its that when they did there was no competition to to realistically turn towards, and they fixed a lot of their mistakes.