Timely_Jellyfish_2077@programming.devcake to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 25 days agoNvidia overtakes Apple as the second most valuable company.www.cnbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square94fedilinkarrow-up1424arrow-down114
arrow-up1410arrow-down1external-linkNvidia overtakes Apple as the second most valuable company.www.cnbc.comTimely_Jellyfish_2077@programming.devcake to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 25 days agomessage-square94fedilink
minus-squareRecallMadness@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·edit-224 days agoThey were first to market with a decent GPGPU toolkit (CUDA) which built them a pretty sizeable userbase. Then when competitors caught up, they made it as hard as possible to transition away from their ecosystem. Like Apple, but worse. I guess they learned from their Gaming heyday that not controlling the abstraction layer (eg OpenGL, DirectX, etc) means they can’t do lock in.
They were first to market with a decent GPGPU toolkit (CUDA) which built them a pretty sizeable userbase.
Then when competitors caught up, they made it as hard as possible to transition away from their ecosystem.
Like Apple, but worse.
I guess they learned from their Gaming heyday that not controlling the abstraction layer (eg OpenGL, DirectX, etc) means they can’t do lock in.