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> "And who can forget his spat with Jobs all those years ago."

Apparently I am able to, what was that?

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Apple used nVidia GPUs in most of its computers. Around 2008-2009, nVidia produced a line of faulty GPUs that were used in the Macbook Pro. This led to widespread hardware failures, and was known as "Bumpgate" because the problem was caused by faulty solder bumps inside the GPU chip. nVidia refused to fully reimburse Apple for repairs because it wasn't contractually obligated to do so. In response, Apple switched away entirely from nVidia GPUs.
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I think it was well into 2013 because both the 2011 and 2013 MBPs I had suffered from it. but I thought that was an apple issue (ie not soldering the dicrete gpu well enough to save money on it)

after the 2 faulty products in a row, I haven't bought an apple product since.

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The infamous early 2011 MBPs had AMD GPUs that basically crapped out the entire logic board. That was what got me to switch back to Windows.
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You are missing out, the M series laptops are insanely good. Now wondering how the field of ML would have developed if Apple had had Nvidia chips all the way...
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No, it was Nvidia because of the way the BGA solder was done. The problem was across manufacturers.
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And that's kidna funny because now Apple Sillicon has pretty great graphics on their own.

Maybe that's the lesson he learned and why he _supposedly_ was making sure his GPUs were still getting to China. Because he knows that the alternative would lead to good Nvidia Chinese competitor later on

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I don't remember either, but I do remember Linus Torwalds not being entirely satisfied with NVIDIA. That is actually something very hard to forget.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYWzMvlj2RQ

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Every time I have to reinstall CUDA, I fondly remember this video.
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> I do feel for Jensen

Why? He caused this. He chose to have affairs with a spy and a subordinate. Now he has to deal with the consequences.

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It remains possible to feel sympathy for people who have done wrong. He's one of the richest men on the planet, he's acted with hubris and ignominy, he's betrayed his loved ones, and he's also probably feeling pretty terrible right now.
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Why would I have sympathy for him? Sounds like he got what he deserved
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probably feeling pretty terrible that he finally got caught?

based on the reporting about the second affair, it's possible his security has had to shut down similar witnesses in the past.

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> It remains possible to feel sympathy for people who have done wrong.

It does remain possible; he's a parasite and someone who's just had an affair. He wouldn't value the sympathy given, Neither himself or Nvidia would return the gesture.

They give null shit about you.

> He's one of the richest men on the planet, he's acted with hubris and ignominy, he's betrayed his loved ones, and he's also probably feeling pretty terrible right now.

He chose to have the affair and as having my father do the same to my mother; you get no sympathy for cheating. Let them feel pretty terrible, maybe they will find what it's like to be human for a change.

Nothing more than a parasite in the corporate playground. His actions caught up with him; woes is me what will I ever do with so much money.

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It’s possible to have empathy for sinners. We’re all human.
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It's like if, after a shooting, you were worried about the shooter having to go to jail instead of wondering about the people shot.
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I agree. I think the biggest issue is to not have empathy for sinners and you think you are a saint…
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spending your empathy on billionaires rather than people being screwed over by billionaires is a choice.
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You mean he knew she was a spy?
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Exactly. I don't feel bad for a billionaire who operates in an extremely unethical fashion.
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It will be the end of this species
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Nvidia eventually had a spat with just about any corporation it has ever worked with. Their only partnership that stood the test of time is probably Nintendo.
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TSMC?
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from what i remember, morris chang is a close friend to hueng.

i wonder what will happen to nvidia's relationship with TMSC now.

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Morris is almost 100 years old. His role at TSMC was instrumental, but now is more of an ornamental figurehead.
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> Their only partnership that stood the test of time is probably Nintendo.

But even then, the original Switch 1 homebrew relied on an oversight in NVIDIA's Tegra chip that blew open the whole platform due to the ability to execute unsigned code. The Switch 1 was actually pretty locked down. Nintendo worked hard on securing it properly, only for it to all be for naught due to their SoC vendor making a massive blunder.

I wish I could have seen what was said in the meetings between the two companies when the first Switch exploit was released, considering it was fully on NVIDIA.

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Yeah but that was only 1st gen and Nintendo can be just as much to blame for exposing it so easily. They fixed the second rev.
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Megaspeed? :-P
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This is undoubtedly the most painful professional moment in his career which has been almost entirely Nvidia.
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and entirely preventable. FAFO
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7th richest person in the world. Has multiple side pieces. The horror, the horror.
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Success in some areas of your life does not insulate you from tragedy. The guy still puts his jeans on one leg at a time. Probably very expensive jeans he throws away after one use...but still. The human condition cannot be escaped.

This includes his family and the family of those involved in the affair. Many lives were turned upside down.

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The guy has enough money to buy an island in French Polynesia and never leave it for the rest of his life. You are correct he is still human, but he can do pretty well at making a new life for himself where he doesnt have to ever think the word Nvidia again.

In 10 years he will have a new family and new friends and this will be a distant memory for him.

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Yeah, it's just potentially a little light treason, what could go wrong
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The current chair of the House Foreign Affairs committee proudly wears a foreign military's uniform on Capitol Hill, so probably nothing.
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Yeah, pretty small potatoes compared to the current US president.
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It isn't the tragic human condition to have affairs. It's a choice he made with his free will. There is no need for apologia; he could simply have not done it.
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Humans being fallible and not being able to resist our urges is indeed part of the human condition.
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He worked at Dennys in Portland for a while, so... He can always lean on that experience if needed.
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I think he will be ok with $50B+
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In this economy, that might just cover his rent until next month.
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Wonder if he'll enjoy his retirement or end up like Marlo Stanfield at the end of The Wire.
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He is hoarding dozens of billions of dollars. He does not need your feelings, he needs a wealth tax.
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That’s a strange argument. His wife owns half of these dollars, so no one should feel for her as well?

(I personally don’t care about Jensen. I just don’t think that “people don’t deserve sympathy because they are billionaires” makes any sense.)

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Being a billionaire is a choice to continue to hoard resources that could be put to useful purposes instead. Yeah, I don't have much sympathy for people who choose to squander our society's resources like that.
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Does a billionaire who became billionair by marrying a person who became a billionaire also bears the responsibility of hoarding because they choose to marry that person and not divorce early?
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He's not hoarding crap. Man's probably got maybe a couple hundred thousand dollars in free cash, the rest is all loans, stocks, investments and properties.

The only people that should be wealth taxed is leeches like you that see how utterly corrupt the state is with how it handles tax dollars and wants to give it more money.

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Nah. He could sell most of that stock and it could be put to useful purposes while making no difference whatsoever to his life. It could be used to build housing, or pay teachers more, or build libraries, or found new companies, or pay off medical debt, there's thousands of things it could be used for. Instead he's just sitting on it. This is hoarding.
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Wrong tree?

> Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Backs California Billionaire Tax Despite Potential $8B Bill

> "I don't mind paying taxes. The more you make, the more taxes you pay. I'm okay with that," Huang said

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Jensen has been one of the few outspoken billionaires for promoting higher taxes on himself. In fact, only he and Buffett come to mind as the members of that category.

Then again, below is a 2024 article from the NY Times claiming Jensen was taking advantage of loopholes to save $8 billion on taxes. Actions speak louder than words so perhaps his more recent messaging about being in favor of higher taxes on himself was the result of a PR effort, given his rapidly increasing visibility.

However, I imagine that any good accountant would strongly recommend saving $8 billion on taxes like Jensen did before 2024. The article:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/business/nvidia-jensen-hu...

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Things Jensen has said are now all suspect. Does he really believe this or is it just his day time positioning, in contrast to his nighttime positioning that cost him his job
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Owning part of the company he built isn't hoarding, kiddo.
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Tens of thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands of people built that company, kiddo.
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They did the jobs they were given and were well compensated for it. This fact has no bearing on whatsoever on the claim that Jensen is "hoarding" his shares in the company that he created.
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He could give away >95% of his wealth and it would make no difference at all to his life. He would still have the exact same life he has now. That wealth could be put to useful purposes, but isn't, because he is sitting on it. That is hoarding.
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You could also fall in a well and would probably make no difference to the world.
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I feel for his wife, personally
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> He built this thing from an absolute scratch.

Pretty sure all those nVidia employees over the years had a bigger hand in building it.

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Right. I'm sure if you got all of those employees in a room together with no vision and no Jensen, Nvidia as we know it today just pops out, right?
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“The graveyards are full of people the world could not do without.” -Elbert Hubbard

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/11/21/graveyards-full/

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Aha. So now we know why the world is in such a sorry state.
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There are dozens, if not hundreds, of AI chip startups right now. So yes is a very reasonable stance to your question
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It's CUDA, indeed, only Jensen can do it
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Allegedly Ai does it better now, and there is more than CUDA these days

The idea that only one person matters is a plague on society

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This is why socialism/communism won the Cold War. They got rid of entrepreneurship, yet new and innovative companies just spontaneously self-assembled for the greater good!
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I, too, feel for the billionaire adulterer.
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