| ▲ | solyin a day ago | |
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50418749 3dfx, Matrox, S3, ATI, and Cirrus were also in the right place at the right time, but there's a reason we're here talking about Nvidia and not them. How much was Jensen vs things out of his control though, few people will ever know. | ||
| ▲ | rob74 19 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
Yeah, and that reason is that Nvidia managed to achieve vendor lock-in with CUDA - which is not generally regarded as a good thing, but it was certainly good for Nvidia. | ||
| ▲ | paulryanrogers 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Survivorship bias is another explanation. NVDA wasn't worth nearly so much before AI took off. Arguably ATI is still around, wedded to AMD. | ||