GPU’s are a family business it would seem.

Su’s mother and Nvidia co-founder and former CEO Jensen Huang are first cousins. Su’s maternal grandfather is the eldest brother of Huang’s mother.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Su

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      I tell people all the time, feudalism never really went away, it just became capitalism. Folks try to argue and I’m like “so did you or anyone you know pay any rent to a landlord lately? Interesting word, lord.”

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      Ya like if they all are the same, then why aren’t they? Like is it to maintain the veneer of non monopoly?

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    Even more damning: Jensen Huang used to work at AMD as an engineer, before he became a finance bro.

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    Are you sure? Wig, lipstick, mascara, same person. Have they ever been seen in the same room together?

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    Oooooooh wow that’s the relation.

    I won’t lie this story is straight out of like 17th century Europe lol

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    Not problematic at all /s. Gotta wonder who’s the patriarch of the family and what did they do? Betting on weapons (likely with US backing).

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      You don’t have to wonder, we have the internet lol

      His parents weren’t rich, he was an immigrant child who worked at Denny’s to afford college.

      Nvidia was a gaming hardware company. His billionaire arc is from being at the right place at the right time for the AI boom.

      His cousin was a little more well-off but also wasn’t coming from a crime family. She went to MIT.

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        OK, thanks for delving into the shit that is the current internet, unlikely to be a source of actual truth these days unfortunately, but thanks. I find the coincidence of related CEOs in both major GPU manufacturers highly problematic and want a mechanism behind it. I assume something familial because of experience. Feel free to prove me wrong, provide references.

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          Seems to happen too often on a planet of billions, that families or friend groups keep ending up controlling everything.

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          If you claim big things and disregard information people provide to you that goes against it, you are not opened to be proven wrong.

          Also, the burden of proof is on the one making the claim.

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          Absolutely wild response to publicly available information that hasn’t changed in decades. The only reason you care now is because they lucked into having products that are good at something they weren’t intended to do.

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        Arms are used to kill people. How do you kill someone with graphing hardware?

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          “Soldiers dont shoot people, their guns do” energy.

          The gpu sits somewhere in the middle. Command gives an order, Soldiers press the Buttons, the hardware calculated the target,the computer script fires when the target is locked in.

          And their now looking to eliminate the soldiers to fully automize the process and get rid of pesky individual morals.

          Soon enough war will be ai fighting ai and humans just collateral.

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    I mean… they are the same company dividing the market, for everyone thinking “oh amd saved us from the 4c 8t” or stuff like that: you are just dumb if you actually think that wasn’t organized.

    Dividi et Imperia.

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        They’re not though?
        AMD has a lot of agreements with Nvidia and a long standing partnership with Intel, most famously the sharing of x86. There’s no indication of them being the same company though. Not legally or secretively. Even if they have cartel agreements…

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          OH IT’S NOT THE SAME, Bill! All of these companies are run by the same crime family! Totally different people! People famously can not d speak to each under!

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          Maybe not legally, but on the secretive point I think your understanding of people conspiring isn’t really accurate.

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    First cousin once removed. Supposedly they first met as adults in an industry meeting when their careers had already launched. It does seem like a crazy coincidence though.

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      It’s insane how many people are brainwashed into believing that historic wealth distribution doesn’t have an overwhelming impact on present wealth and success.

      My parents achieved middle class from poverty but never learned how to manage money because their parents were uneducated farmers, orphans, etc. I grew up around both rich and poor kids. Most of the kids who went into “high skilled” “professional” roles had parents in those disciplines, and the wealthiest have the wealthiest grandparents. Even the “pros” that didn’t have that were far from poor. The poorer kids I knew are blue collar at best, but many fell to addiction, suicide, or fell off the face of the earth.

      For every decamillionaire who came from the middle class, there are dozens whose families were already millionaires in the 20th Century.

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        okay but both Su and Huang come from middle class immigrant families not families with generational wealth.

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          Its so funny that people keep speculating on in his early life as if wasn’t documented well before he got rich lol

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        Yes, but it’s still a massive coincidence that cousins who never met, a decade a part in age, raised by different families in different parts of the US are both CEOs of the two largest GPU manufacturers in the world.

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          I agree it’s a hell of a coincidence, but also a hell of a long game and they were both EEs.

          Rough timeline:

          • 1984 Huang graduates and starts working at AMD
          • 1985 ATI founded
          • 1986-1993 Huang bounces between grad school and other tech companies
          • 1993 Huang founds NVidia
          • 1994-2012 Su graduates and starts at Texas Instruments, goes on to other companies
          • 2006 AMD buys ATI
          • 2012 Su joins AMD
          • 2014 Su becomes CEO of AMD

          Back in 2012, both companies were not that significant. Very different from today. Like Intel was worth roughly 8x NVidia and AMD combined.

          So did AMD, 6 years after buying NVidia’s biggest rival, intend to hire Huang’s relative to form a GPU cartel? Maybe. There’s plenty of other scenarios where it seems more obvious that things were done because of family connections. I wouldn’t be surprised if it came out that was the case, but I’m on the coincidence side (for now).