alt Hacker NewsAnother 40 year old gamer here. I remember all of it. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcF36_qMd8M one my fav videos on the matter)
I also had the displeasure to work with nvidia. After years of pushing gaming cards on us for compute, the years I spent working with nvidia was full of conversations where they would list silly excuse after excuse as to why we should use the expensive enterprise-grade cards instead. All the while, we begged them to unlock driver features that were available to Quadro cards but not GeForce cards, features as simple as hardware acceleration pass-through on a remote desktop connection. It took them a full-on epidemic, where remote work became super common, to allow some of those features to GeForce cards.
So it's really on brand that they tried creating a fake scarcity to keep their prices up. I don't envy the situation Jensen is in but I won't be sorry for him.
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Not defending NVIDIA by any stretch, but I think Intel is the only one that allows ‘enterprise’ features on their consumer cards, like SR-IOV.
Such a complete failure of the market that NVIDIA hasn’t had any real competition. All of the vendors abandoned PC gamers though. Though the price choke point is memory, not cores.
Which makes me curious, if AMD did another HBM-based card like the Vega series, would that RAM be cheaper now than GDDR?
> I don't envy the situation Jensen is in but I won't be sorry for him.
Connected. Complete lack of integrity.
If he cheats on his wife, and on his customers, he'll probably cheat on his shareholders. Hence having to quit before he's pushed.
Owning three percent of one of the most valuable companies in the world is a completely unbearable situation to be in.
Thanks for sharing the video. What's funny is that YouTube tagged a 10 year old video as AI-generated. Google is another company that's fallen hard from grace.