New details reveal that former NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang used circular financing to fund AI startups and absorb excess TSMC wafers and memory rather than letting GPU prices drop
Okay, I’ll bite. Can you tell me which of the AI and Semi industry executives have been more stable, honest, or productive for yielding actual utility to the public, while also engaging directly with policy & governance?
Once Upon a time, I bought a pair of ATI graphics cards and try using them together, the driver set couldn’t handle running both chips at the same time it would crash under pretty much any use.
I was able to pair a late-gen 3DFX card with an Nvidia graphics card and run a game across three CRTs in my dorm room successfully, because after Nvidia acquired 3DFX they supported enough of their tech in their stack. So I was fairly loyal to Nvidia for the next 20 ish years.
The reason I invested in Nvidia was because they were making a play to acquire ARM, which fell through because it was fought off by regulators across both sides of the pond. I’ve already sold off half of my Nvidia shares and I am fully prepared to watch the other half burn.
But almost every time that I find some cool new consumer technology, or some new hobby with my computers, they have been at the Forefront of it, and I saw them making consumer forward moves. Example, providing a ‘low hash rate’ sku’s for my 3080 TI to cockblock crypto miners, and that was available for me to purchase in ~2021/2022 at the height of that season’s scarcity.
Until the channel stuffing that has been uncovered in this most recent season, I had almost exclusively seen consumer forward moves on Nvidia’s part, and Jensen Huang was at the helm for all of them.
I don’t think he is all together altruistic, I don’t think that he is a reliably moral character, I think that he is a Bond villain just by right of having more than a billion dollars to his name.
But I would love to know what AI executive you trust more to actually deliver a product that is usable to the public, while being solvent, when he has a track record of doing so and the others have a track record of failing to do so. Asshole? Probably. Reasonable? Consistently.
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Okay, I’ll bite. Can you tell me which of the AI and Semi industry executives have been more stable, honest, or productive for yielding actual utility to the public, while also engaging directly with policy & governance?
Once Upon a time, I bought a pair of ATI graphics cards and try using them together, the driver set couldn’t handle running both chips at the same time it would crash under pretty much any use.
I was able to pair a late-gen 3DFX card with an Nvidia graphics card and run a game across three CRTs in my dorm room successfully, because after Nvidia acquired 3DFX they supported enough of their tech in their stack. So I was fairly loyal to Nvidia for the next 20 ish years.
The reason I invested in Nvidia was because they were making a play to acquire ARM, which fell through because it was fought off by regulators across both sides of the pond. I’ve already sold off half of my Nvidia shares and I am fully prepared to watch the other half burn.
But almost every time that I find some cool new consumer technology, or some new hobby with my computers, they have been at the Forefront of it, and I saw them making consumer forward moves. Example, providing a ‘low hash rate’ sku’s for my 3080 TI to cockblock crypto miners, and that was available for me to purchase in ~2021/2022 at the height of that season’s scarcity.
Until the channel stuffing that has been uncovered in this most recent season, I had almost exclusively seen consumer forward moves on Nvidia’s part, and Jensen Huang was at the helm for all of them.
I don’t think he is all together altruistic, I don’t think that he is a reliably moral character, I think that he is a Bond villain just by right of having more than a billion dollars to his name.
But I would love to know what AI executive you trust more to actually deliver a product that is usable to the public, while being solvent, when he has a track record of doing so and the others have a track record of failing to do so. Asshole? Probably. Reasonable? Consistently.