Fuck you too, Lisa.
The next hardware manufacturer saying “Actually, we do GPUs for gaming” will be King/Queen of the world.
Also “Luigi, we need you so bad.”
that manufacturer would have a fraction of the sales. They’re all doing this because data centers buy way contracts are simply more lucrative; the planned rollout of data centers means they’ll sell so much more that they simply can’t accommodate enthusiasts and home builds
This is of course the goal of people like Altman and bezos, they want to hoard compute after hoarding 99+% of all the wealth amongst like 50 people. This is why resistance to data center rollouts is so important and to a further step fair distribution of resources as a political platform. This mess wouldn’t exist if oligarchs were reigned in
Oh boy, so we really need to guillotine those billionaires and CEOs then bathe, dance and fuck in their blood ASAP.
Maybe not that last verb, I think that’s how you get more scrappy CEOs.
Oh, yeah, it was just a flourish to achieve that “blood orgy from hell” vibe. Fucking in someone else’s blood is unsanitary, especially in that filthy billionaires’ blood.
Not gonna happen any time soon. The barrier of entry is massive.
Making decent drivers alone is a humongous undertaking: You have to catch up to the work of several decades - and it’s a moving target. That’s on top of just how difficult it is to design good silicon. Just look at how Chinese GPU manufacturers are struggling to match low-end cards from 10 years ago (even though they are lying and claiming they are matching high-end cards from one generation ago) with cards that have many times the power draw and cost - and all of that with far worse games compatibility.
Hell, even the giant that is (soon to be probably: was) Intel failed to leave a mark in the dedicated GPU business and they actually have decades of experience making (pretty shitty) integrated GPUs and (even shittier) drivers for them.
Will these data center only companies continue need those big driver design and implementation departments if they are narrowing their focus like this? Maybe there will be a batch of experienced devs looking for a new place to hang their hats?
Good point. Wouldn’t be the first time, but then again, this is much more difficult today then a few decades ago. Still, if it happens, this is the most likely scenario, not some Chinese company somehow coming up with a decent home-grown GPU.
Software rendering is back on the menu folks
What does this mean?
Using CPU to render graphics as we did back in the day when graphics accelerators were a luxury. Seems we are going back to that
Oh that rings a bell now. Some games I remember you could switch between software and OpenGL or something
Yup, Tomb Raider 1 comes to mind. I actually really like the software rendering look. Crunchy pixelated goodness.
When everything is not so high-def, your mind starts filling in the gaps, at least in my experience. Makes games more memorable to me that way.
I think half life had this too. I think I remember flipping between this in counter strike not knowing what was better or worse back then lol.
this is soul crushing. greed ruins everything.
Thank you Rule 63 Jensen, very cool
Wonder how long it’ll take for Intel’s cards to become good enough.
Good thing I’ll be getting my next GPU from ebay
Somebody bring back Matrox or Cirrus Logic, please.
Lisa and Jenson should hook up.
Gross, they’re cousins.
Are we going to soon find out exactly how secure data centres are? With lots expensive computer hardware and i assume not many staff.
She’s right though. Look at their revenue. Data centers are 10x their gaming division.
Gaming pulls in less than 1B profit a year. An absolute drip compared to their Datacenter business.
I’m surprised they bother with gaming at all once you realize what a side project it basically is for them in terms of revenue.
Good to know. You stand by that, yes?
I don’t know what ya’ll are complaining about. Gaming will move this direction anyway as gaming is droplets of piss in the computing budget world.
Stadia was just too early.
We are a tulip first investment firm
A+ historical reference
I’m sorry to break this, but would love someone to educate me here, pretty please!
First ‘stock’ market bubble and crash was in tulip bulbs.
And it was far earlier than you would imagine. And far dumber.
I’ve got some south seas islands you can plant them on…
popcorn futures too.
“…if you believe—which I do, deeply—that computing in many ways equates to intelligence. So the more compute you have, the more intelligent you are…”
Why did nobody in the room interrupt at this point and challenge the validity of the assertion. Sick of these people getting away with spouting nonsense
Glad the article goes on to disagree but i want to see these challenges happening in real time.
“the more compute you have the more dunning-kruger you are”
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Stop all the downloading.
Porkchop sandwiches?!
Help computer
“my product equl intellegence, more product? Basically bigger brain.” Is crazy unsubtle marketing.
This is not being sold to the wise, or the conscientious!
