• mcv@lemmy.zip
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    14 hours ago

    They lucked into it. They made their cards for gamers, and various groups, AI researchers, bitcoin miners and others, discovered that they those gamer GPUs were really good for other tasks too. I think it took a while before Nvidia started making specialised cards for those purposes.

    I can’t really blame them for serving that market that they just lucked into. I can and will blame them for their terrible Linux support.

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      9 hours ago

      Oh believe me, it wasn’t just luck. They have special labs full of people who’s whole job is to find another unexplored niches that can buy their cards. And they only make specific single purpose cards only when the market is mature enough to justify the spending, which is also smart.