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It's not related to the DRAM shortage. Gaming dropped to ~10% of Nvidia's revenue a year or two ago due to AI and there was controversy years before that about
by wmf 10mo ago
It's not related to the DRAM shortage. Gaming dropped to ~10% of Nvidia's revenue a year or two ago due to AI and there was controversy years before that about most "gaming" GPUs going to crypto miners. They won't exit the gaming market but from a shareholder perspective it does look like a good idea.
- htrp 10mo agoyet another reason to not listen to your shareholders. if it were up to them, cuda would be a money losing initiative that was killed in 2009
- willis936 10mo agoIt's a bad idea and yet everyone does it.
- internet101010 10mo agoFurthermore, I would wager a giant portion of people who have entered the ML space in the last five years started out by using CUDA on their gaming rigs. Throwing away that entrenchment vector seems like a terrible idea.
- Animats 10mo ago> Gaming dropped to ~10% of Nvidia's revenue a year or two ago due to AI Well, actually it's that the AI business made NVidia 10x bigger. NVidia now has a market cap of $4.4 trillion. That's six times bigger than General Motors, bigger than Apple, and the largest market cap in the world. For a GPU maker.
- jiggawatts 10mo agoA GPU designer. They don't make GPUs! Well, technically, they do assemble some of them, but almost all of the parts are made by other companies.