Okay, but why doesn't AMD have a CUDA equivalent in quality? Luck?
AMD was borderline bankrupt? While nvidia was doing CUDA, AMD was selling off assets like their fab business to keep the lights on.
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition
by NetMageSCW on Thursday November 12, 2026 @01:40PM
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The decision to support CUDA and include it in retail GPUs so that he could create a massive installed base, even in the face of criticism and loss of stock value, for years. Sort of like Tesla building superchargers to cause BEVs to become viable.
Do you know for sure that Jensen personally was involved in recruiting Ian Buck and starting up the CUDA project? A project that's largely attributed to John Nickolls? What other major decisions did Nvidia even make over the last, say, 15 years?