Nvidia hits $2T valuation as AI frenzy grips Wall Street

Re:Nvidia hits $2T valuation as AI frenzy grips Wall Street by Sohcahtoa82 on Friday February 23, 2024 @01:59PM (#39484739)

I think you really have cause-and-effect backwards.

First off, 3D games existed before NVIDIA. NVIDIA wasn't even first to market for making dedicated 3D acceleration hardware.

CUDA existed before Bitcoin and was used for physics and chemistry simulations when it first came out.

> "Compute that does nothing important"

Entertainment is important, so to just toss 3D games aside is asinine. I'll agree that crypto-mining is completely worthless. As far AI, certainly there's a lot of hype around it right now, and we're probably gonna see a lot of AI startups go belly-up in the next couple years, but it's definitely not a fad and isn't going away.

Being highly dismissive doesn't make you cool or edgy, just so you know.

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Re:Nvidia hits $2T valuation as AI frenzy grips Wall Street by ryandrake on Friday February 23, 2024 @02:02PM (#39484775)

I mean, I'm a 3D gamer myself and I'm happy we have GPUs. Just being realistic about their importance. I am fully aware I'm burning kilowatts of energy so that the leaves in Red Dead Redemption 2 look beautiful.

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