Comment by sigmoid10
16 days ago
I'm not talking about gaming, I'm talking about general purpose computing (although even for gaming your statement is pretty bold). Since she's CEO of a publicly traded company, it seems pretty weird that she would ignore the fields where the money is at, while Nvidia becomes the most valuable company in the world. So she's not just ignoring developers' wants but also her stockholders'.
GPGPU is largely a non-presence outside of a few niche fields like video encoding (which, uh, seems to work fine enough for me?).
AI is not exactly niche.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter
It keeps being hyped up again every once in a while years, but it has never, will never, panned out in practice.
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