David Rosenthal: preference

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…That’s right. I love this tee-up of learning but not imitating, and learning from a wide array of sources. There’s this unbelievable third element, I think, to what Nvidia has become today. That’s the data center. It’s certainly not obvious. I can’t reason from AlexNet and your engagement with the research community, and social media feed [...]. You deciding and the company deciding we’re going to go on a five-year all-in journey on the data center. How did that happen? Our journey to the data center happened, I would say almost 17 years ago. I’m always being asked, what are the challenges that the company could see someday? I’ve always felt that the fact that Nvidia’s technology is plugged into a computer and that computer has to sit next to you because it has to be connected to a monitor, that will limit our opportunity someday, because there are only so many desktop PCs that plug a GPU into. There are only so many CRTs and (at the time) LCDs that we could possibly drive. The question is, wouldn’t it be amazing if our computer doesn’t have to be connected to the viewing device? That the separation of it made it possible for us to compute somewhere else. One of our engineers came and showed it to me one day. It was really capturing the frame buffer, encoding it into video, and streaming it to a receiver device, separating computing from the viewing.…

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