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Re:The computers used to do 3D animation for Final Fantasy V... by agumonkey on Thursday April 07, 2022 @03:17PM (#30949125)
Aight but then why no other company managed to compete on the numerical core array ? still funny, as if the wealthy gaming market funded nvidia venture into serious computing enough to choke the potential competition.
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Re:The computers used to do 3D animation for Final Fantasy V... by jandrese on Thursday April 07, 2022 @03:28PM (#30949257)
You need huge money to develop the tech, but the HPC industry is tiny. People are always impressed at these million dollar machines, but only a handful are built every year. There is a lot more money in gaming selling millions of $200-$1000 cards every year.
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Re:The computers used to do 3D animation for Final Fantasy V... by ac29 on Thursday April 07, 2022 @07:19PM (#30951501)
There certainly are some smaller companies attempting to compete on making AI/ML chips. Tenstorrent comes to mind: https://tenstorrent.com/grayskull/
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Re:The computers used to do 3D animation for Final Fantasy V... by Sohcahtoa82 on Thursday April 07, 2022 @05:25PM (#30950512)
Silicon is expensive to design, and even more expensive to build. The startup costs are crazy high. By the time people realized it could be a thing, nVidia and AMD already owned the market.
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