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Nvidia did a lot of things right. But it sure didn't hurt that the crypto bubble gave way to LLMs with almost perfect timing. Luck favors the prepared and all t
by ghaff 2y ago
Nvidia did a lot of things right. But it sure didn't hurt that the crypto bubble gave way to LLMs with almost perfect timing. Luck favors the prepared and all that but Nvidia also would have had trouble timing market changes better.
- toasterlovin 2y agoYeah, exactly, it has never been clear that we would find a use for parallel computation outside of niches like graphics and HPC. And in fact most of the history of computing has been evidence of the opposite: useful computation has been predominantly serial in nature. But here we are now.
- FredPret 2y agoNvidia did ride a perfect storm of gaming + bitcoin + AI. But AMD and others could have done the same, had they been better at riding that wave. There’s a reason it was Nvidia who won out.