Nvidia CEO: We bet the farm on AI and no one knew it

Re:Nvidia CEO: We bet the farm on AI and no one knew it by m_mueller on Thursday December 21, 2023 @10:22AM (#38721526)

Didn't even need to extrapolate future potential. The world of supercomputing was massively sunsetting the old vector processors (Cray, Sparc etc.) and switched to commodity x86 hardware back in that timeframe when CUDA came out. Perfect opening for a new vector processor on steroids, for which the chip development was already payed by gamers...

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Re:Nvidia CEO: We bet the farm on AI and no one knew it by Gh0stRAT on Thursday December 21, 2023 @10:47AM (#38721951)

IIRC people were already converting their data into texture maps and writing their SIMD instructions as shaders operating on those textures before Nvidia released CUDA.

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Re:Nvidia CEO: We bet the farm on AI and no one knew it by PH95VuimJjqBqy on Thursday December 21, 2023 @12:12PM (#38723288)

^ exactly.

What people find contentious is this claim that they specifically did it for ML/AI. That's not why they invested the way they did.

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Re:Nvidia CEO: We bet the farm on AI and no one knew it by hnlmorg on Thursday December 21, 2023 @11:41AM (#38722825)

I remember some DAWs supporting pluggins to run PCM over GPU back in the early 00s.

It was hugely experimental but does demonstrate that the idea of a GPUs being used for compute isn’t a recent one.

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Re:Nvidia CEO: We bet the farm on AI and no one knew it by mratsim on Thursday December 21, 2023 @10:58AM (#38722136)

Ah yeah there was an article on HN about that a couple years ago. GPGPU before Cuda, now onto a treasure hunt ...

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