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Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by solyin on Sunday November 08, 2026 @06:22PM (#50418749)
There were a lot of computer graphics cards manufacturers back in the 90's. Nvidia survived amongst the whole pack of them. 3dfx, Matrox, S3, ATI, Cirrus. How much of that is soley due to Jenson vs outside factors outside of his control, only he really knows, but I think her deserves a bit more credit than right place right time. CUDA was a very expensive investment with zero guarantee of payoff. The market could have gone an entirely different way and Nvidia would have failed.
Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by mjr00 on Sunday November 08, 2026 @06:30PM (#50418849)
That's fair. NVidia's execution has been rock solid for as long as they've been around and Huang deserves credit for that. But I would say most of the reason they've 100x'd since 2017 has been external forces.
Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by Jlagreen on Monday November 09, 2026 @03:08AM (#50422560)
Yes the demand of comapnies for AI compute which Nvidia delivered. These are still the external forces which let it grow at 100% YoY despite >$200b in revenue.
Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by Kudos on Monday November 09, 2026 @04:25AM (#50423176)
Did you forget the crypto boom?