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Re:Nvidia, ASML Plunge as DeepSeek Triggers Tech Stock Selloff by talldayo on Monday January 27, 2025 @11:12PM (#42848745)
That means the remaining 10% are similarly disillusioned by the impression Apple or AMD could "just write" a CUDA alternative and compete on their merits. You don't want either of those people spending their money on datacenter bets.

10 years ago people said OpenCL would break CUDA's moat, 5 years ago people said ASICs would beat CUDA, and now we're arguing that older Nvidia GPUs will make CUDA obsolete. I have spent the past decade reading delusional eulogies for Nvidia, and I still find people adamant they're doomed despite being unable to name a real CUDA alternative.

Re:Nvidia, ASML Plunge as DeepSeek Triggers Tech Stock Selloff by seanmcdirmid on Monday January 27, 2025 @11:14PM (#42848755)
Did ASICs beat CUDA out in crypto coin mining? Not the benchmark I really care about, but if things slow down in AI (they probably won’t) ASICs could probably take over some of it.
Re:Nvidia, ASML Plunge as DeepSeek Triggers Tech Stock Selloff by nly on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @03:35AM (#42850139)
Well in the case of Bitcoin it's just one simple hash function. ASICs were inevitable.