What worries me isn’t why: “we got to sell to big datacentres, fuck desktop customers”.
Or the AI bubble bursting: even if generative models find some use cases, they won’t justify the investment, so nVidia’s “shovel seller in a gold rush” situation will end.
Or what nVidia will do afterwards: “fuck, we need desktop customers to buy our things as they did.”
What worries me is that, once nVidia goes through all silly dance, suckers will still go back to buying nVidia, tails waggling, almost as if saying “call me a good boi”.
Nvidia won’t recover from this…AMD is going to sweep the market, which will mean games are built to be AMD first
It takes decades to recover from a misplay like this. They just handed over the market on a silver platter, the fuck you to gamers barely even matters
You mean the same AMD that just announced a deal where they’re devoting 20% of their CPU AND GPU production to Meta AI?
Yeah, they aren’t going to be doing crap for gamers either.
Getting pretty concerned at the seemingly intentional discourses that suggest ownership of PC hardware is an unnecessary cost to cut in the profitability of consumer computing.
I’m almost completely certain that Huang doesn’t give a fuck, considering their datacenter-oriented sales are just printing money at this point.
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The “record sales overall” appears to include gaming GPUs too, so it may be a little early to say anything based on this.
Nvidia’s gaming division is still doing numbers, with its $3.7 billion earned this quarter up 47% from a year ago
I’m not big in finance but this sounds massive.
Create shortage, crank prices, profit!
peak monopoly behaviour that should concern us all.
At least for gaming, given that we have AMD (and now to a little degree Intel), it’s not really a monopoly. We do not depend on Nvidia. Unless we talk about the highest end off course, but that is not what the majority of players would buy anyway. Nvidia has a monopoly situation on the Ai datacenters, yes, but not on the gaming GPU side.
It depends on how rigorously you define monopoly, because in a less literal sense, they sure do exert a lot of control over the companies that build their hardware, and dictate the standards for their competitors (“What’s the difference between an AMD GPU and an Nvidia one? About $50.”)
Related: Nvidia is facing an antitrust probe from US regulators amid competitor complaints, report says
with its $3.7 billion earned this quarter
So that’s what…7 flagship GPUs?
