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.
remember she is related to Huang, by cousin.
Wut? Wait. The AMD CEO is the cousin of the nvidia CEO? Like, the CEO of the number two GPU chip company is cousin of the number one company y, and effectively there isn’t really a number three so this GPU market really is really a family monopoly?
Welcome to late stage capitalism! Market fundamentalism was always a lie, the american dream has been dead for over a century.
Both are from Taiwan though.
I wonder why that matters, most oligarchs are from a diaspora.
It’s pretty f. weird that Lisa Su is the CEO despite being so closely related to Jensen, I would dislike this if I were an AMD investor. However this is not a family monopoly, since neither Su or Jensen own these companies, not substantially anyway. (well below 1% & 3 something % owned respectively) Meaning of shareholders at large disliked Lisa Su’s way of doing things, she would be booted without too many hurdles I would think & the same is true for Jensen.
The fishy part for me is that they’re both from Taiwan, and they’re both in charge of companies that are some of the biggest customers of TSMC, Taiwan’s biggest chip fab that practically has a worldwide monopoly on high-end chip manufacturing. There’s also the national security angle here, with TSMC probably being the only reason China hasn’t invaded, as the entire world would have something to say about it.
Idk, there’s a lot of fertile ground for conspiracy theories under these Taiwanese billionaires.
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
What a cunt.
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.
