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Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: commitment
28 Mar 2022 Acquired Nvidia Part I: The GPU Company (1993-2006)
“If it is and this person does that mind numbing work, and sits there just observing, and observing, and observing, then we will go right to manufacturing without ever producing a physical prototype and ship that.”
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- Ben Gilbert
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- 28 Mar 2022
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- Acquired
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…That's brutal. They're basically making this trade-off of, okay, if we want to ship something in nine months, we don't have time to actually have it execute on the hardware. We are going to make the trade off of our testing being mind-numbing, like running whatever our graphics tests are, where we're looking for this certain specified output. We need to plant someone in front of a screen to watch the new frame render once every 30 seconds and look again some tests to verify that the output is correct. If it is and this person does that mind numbing work, and sits there just observing, and observing, and observing, then we will go right to manufacturing without ever producing a physical prototype and ship that. That is exactly what they did. They had spent a million dollars just to get the emulator hardware and software to do this.…
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