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.

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

Every time I have to reinstall CUDA, I fondly remember this video.

from what i remember, morris chang is a close friend to hueng.

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

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.

In this economy, that might just cover his rent until next month.

Why would I have sympathy for him? Sounds like he got what he deserved

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.

> 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; woe is me. What will I ever do with so much money.

I agree. I think the biggest issue is to not have empathy for sinners and you think you are a saint…

I'm not religious. I do agree though.

But you shouldn't have empathy because you like him or anything.

You should have empathy when he proves he's changed. You can make mistakes, we all do. You don't deserve empathy.

He sells GPUs, he's not a rockstar.

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.

spending your empathy on billionaires rather than people being screwed over by billionaires is a choice.

Most likely based on?

It will be the end of this species

“The graveyards are full of people the world could not do without.” -Elbert Hubbard

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

There are dozens, if not hundreds, of AI chip startups right now. So yes is a very reasonable stance to your question

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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

Tens of thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands of people built that company, kiddo.