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An object is what it does. NVIDIA is making the most money through AI, so that's what it is now to the market
by Almondsetat 1y ago
An object is what it does. NVIDIA is making the most money through AI, so that's what it is now to the market
- Pooge 1y agoNvidia is selling hardware. What the buyers are doing with it doesn't change anything about Nvidia. A company selling knives is not considered a butcher or cook, despite the main uses of knives being just that.
- matthewmacleod 1y agoBut it clearly does, as NVIDIA rolls out hardware and software optimised for deployment as AI compute.
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- Pooge 1y agoYou have a point. Then it's a "compute" company.
- swiftcoder 1y agoA company that sells knives, and also invests heavily in restaurants, might be considered to be in the restaurant business, however Nvidia spends a lot of money investing in downstream AI companies, in what feels like a rather incestuous circle
- OJFord 1y agoI'm not sure if this is what you mean too, but by the same logic it's not a 'graphics company' nor gaming etc. either. 'Chipmaker' as they say, specialising in highly parallel application-specific compute.
- calaphos 1y agoThe hardware is heavily optimized for low precision matrix math, pretty much only used for AI.
- phkahler 1y agoJust like it was a crypto company. Its a computational fad chaser. Next up: quantum. And that will be the end of them.
- tengbretson 1y agoThey're just selling. Thats it. If 50 Pittsburgh Steelers fans show up to your bar every Sunday, congrats, you're a Steelers bar now.
- tripplyons 1y agoI don't think they will fall for the quantum hype. Jensen has publicly stated that quantum computing is at least decades away from being useful.
- CamperBob2 1y agoWe were saying the same thing about AI less than one decade ago, of course... and then the Vaswani paper came out. What if it turns out that when it comes to quantum computing, "Used Pinball Machine Parts Are All You Need"?
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