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Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: belief
28 Mar 2022 Acquired Nvidia Part I: The GPU Company (1993-2006)
“We still have a few more years until the dot-com bubble crashes. PlayStation 1 is out, but PS2 is not out yet, I think.”
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- Ben Gilbert
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- belief
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- 28 Mar 2022
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- Acquired
Transcript context
…This was 1997. It's an interesting era. The Internet is a thing. We still have a few more years until the dot-com bubble crashes. PlayStation 1 is out, but PS2 is not out yet, I think. With that, the gaming market bifurcated into the console market, which was standardized, and you knew it was all going to work. Then, the hardcore PC gaming market, which just had so much revenue potential even though it was smaller in terms of numbers because people are willing to spend so much money on this stuff. At the end of this, NVIDIA has now figured out these dynamics of the PC gaming market, and they now have a process within the company to design and ship each next generation of their hardware in a six-month timeline while the rest of the industry is on an 18–24-month timeline.…
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