Another 40 year old gamer here. I remember all of it. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcF36_qMd8M one my fav videos on the matter)

I also had the displeasure to work with nvidia. After years of pushing gaming cards on us for compute, the years I spent working with nvidia was full of conversations where they would list silly excuse after excuse as to why we should use the expensive enterprise-grade cards instead. All the while, we begged them to unlock driver features that were available to Quadro cards but not GeForce cards, features as simple as hardware acceleration pass-through on a remote desktop connection. It took them a full-on epidemic, where remote work became super common, to allow some of those features to GeForce cards.

So it's really on brand that they tried creating a fake scarcity to keep their prices up. I don't envy the situation Jensen is in but I won't be sorry for him.

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esalman an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Thanks for sharing the video. What's funny is that YouTube tagged a 10 year old video as AI-generated. Google is another company that's fallen hard from grace.

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marcus_holmes an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> I don't envy the situation Jensen is in but I won't be sorry for him.

Connected. Complete lack of integrity.

If he cheats on his wife, and on his customers, he'll probably cheat on his shareholders. Hence having to quit before he's pushed.

	▲	shevy-java 40 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Well - the situation with his wife or being unable to control his Jenwong or whatever one would call it, is still a private matter (the allegation of the spy situation is a bit more complex, but the other affair he had going, or at the least one, losing track here of his personal love life), is at the end of the day not really something that is or should be in the spotline for others, even though it has already generated tons of meme videos. People are very happily putting memes about the ex CEO right now - he is probably one of the top #3 meme people right now. The other day I saw where he approached two female podcasters; it suddenly had such a creepy vibe, given his weakness for females ... (though that was not a meme as such, just some seemingly accidental Jensen sneakily creeping in situation ... can't stop him zooming in on the ladies, apparently) But customers having to pay more due to NVIDIA milking them - now that's something that really would require mandatory jail time for all NVIDIA folks involved here, IF true and verified in court (right now we can only speculate, even if we have extremely convincing proof; the courts would have to come to such a conclusion at the end of the day; and for this, the court systems have to work. I have severe doubts the courts work in the USA right now. It seems a billionaires-controlled court. Why is the whole Epstein network not investigated? Why is only Ghislaine in jail? A single person master-minded +5000 sex slaves over some 20 years or so? How is that even logistically possible?).

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Fr0styMatt88 35 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Not defending NVIDIA by any stretch, but I think Intel is the only one that allows ‘enterprise’ features on their consumer cards, like SR-IOV.

Such a complete failure of the market that NVIDIA hasn’t had any real competition. All of the vendors abandoned PC gamers though. Though the price choke point is memory, not cores.

Which makes me curious, if AMD did another HBM-based card like the Vega series, would that RAM be cheaper now than GDDR?

	▲	kogepathic 17 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> but I think Intel is the only one that allows ‘enterprise’ features on their consumer cards, like SR-IOV. They do not. SR-IOV is only available on Arc Pro cards. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-SR-IOV-Only-For-Arc-Pro
	▲	doctorpangloss 16 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> real competition? many have asked why AMD doesn't make its GPUs cheaper. lisa su and jensen huang not competing with each other on price and being related is as much of a coincidence as wuhan having a virology institute experimenting on COVID-19 and being the center of the COVID-19 outbreak

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adrianN 43 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Owning three percent of one of the most valuable companies in the world is a completely unbearable situation to be in.