> alternative hardware vendors aren't seen as viable competitor for hardware reasons, and people attribute the failure to software failures. It certainly seems

> alternative hardware vendors aren't seen as viable competitor for hardware reasons, and people attribute the failure to software failures. It certainly seems like there's a "nobody ever got fired for buying nvidia" dynamic going on. We've seen this mentality repeatedly in other areas of the industry: that's why the phrase is a snowclone. Eventually, someone is going to use non-nvidia GPU accelerators and get a big enough cost or performance win that industry attitudes will change.