Pretty sure his criticality to NVDA is the fact that he founded it and has been its CEO for all of its existence. GPGPUs were entirely his vision. Back in 2008 when no one gave a shit about CUDA or GPGPUs he was the only one insisting that massive data processing on GPUs was going to be important for data centers. He kept funding that for another 15 years despite the target audience being niche scientific computing and the market not rewarding him for that. NVDA without him is going to be a different company. That’s obviously bound to happen sooner or later, but Apple without Steve is a different company than Apple with Steve. Could be better, could be worse, but it’ll surly be different.
replyIt is hard to imagine NVIDIA becoming better without him
replyThe conspiracy theorist in me thinks this was a ploy to buy the Chinese more time. They are coming for the GPGPU game with early entrants like Lisuan Tech LX 7G100. They are still a few years behind but you know their tenacity and commitment to getting it done by hook or by crook. A few years of Nvidia stumbling in the woods is all thats standing in the way of China catching up and taking yet another industry away from the west (as if Nuclear, Batteries, Cars, drones weren't enough). The Dems will have an ax to grind and I guess unlucky Jensen is the first victim. If they kill this golden goose man oh man the history books are going to be brutal.
reply> The Dems will have an ax to grind and I guess unlucky Jensen is the first victim
replyAhh, looks like the midterm results are still smarting!
That's like saying it is OK that Steve Jobs died when he did because the iPhone was already in production by that time.
replyAnd clearly it was ok from a business PoV?
replySo you think Jobs had reached the end of his inventive streak?
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replyYou think Jobs invented the products he was selling? He was a salesman, not an engineer.
replyJobs was a product visionary. He wasn’t an engineer, and wasn’t just a salesman.
reply> Jobs was a product visionary.
replyI'd like some of what you're smoking. At best I could call him an artist, in the sense that "good artists copy, great artists steal".
You reckon Apple board shouldn't have voted for his death?
replyJensen said we have AGI. Can't AGI do his job?
replyhttps://www.reddit.com/r/agi/comments/1s7sgg0/nvidias_jensen...
In this case, Fridman had offered Huang a very unusual metric for AGI: Could AI start and grow a technology business to the point where it was worth $1 billion? Fridman asked if Huang thought AGI by this definition could be achieved within the next five to 20 years.
Huang said he didn’t think that amount of time was necessary. “I think it’s now. I think we’ve achieved AGI,” he said. He then hedged, noting the company didn’t necessarily have to remain that valuable. “You said a billion,” Huang told Fridman, “and you didn’t say forever.”have you looked at Apple's stock price and product portfolio since 2011?
replyYou don't think Apple would be worth much more if Jobs was still CEO?
replyThey seem to be doing fine without him
replyYes, but they would do even more fine with him. Since Jobs' passing Apple has released only one successful product category: Watch.
replyAirPods bring in around $18-22 billion annually
replyRIP but yeah he was a bit rapey and didn't really add anything
replyThe Moor has done his work, the Moor may go.
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