Jensen Huang: evaluation

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…Do you remember any moments in Nvidia’s history where you’re like, oh, we made a bunch of wrong decisions, but somehow we got saved? Because it takes the sum of all the luck and all the skill in order to succeed. I actually thought that you started with RIVA 128 was spot on. RIVA 128, as I mentioned, the number of smart decisions we made, which are smart to this day, how we design chips is exactly the same to this day, because gosh nobody’s ever done it back then. We pulled every trick in the book in a desperation because we had no other choice. Well, guess what? That’s the way things are ought to be done. And now everybody does it that way. Everybody does it because why should you do things twice if you can do it once? Why tape out a chip seven times if you could tape it out one time? The most efficient, the most cost effective, the most competitive speed is technology. Speed is performance. Time to market is performance. All of those things apply. So why do things twice if you could do it once? RIVA 128 made a lot of great decisions in how we spec products, how we think about market needs and lack of, how we judge markets, all of this. Man, we made some amazingly good decisions. Yeah, we were back against the wall. We only had one more shot to do it, but— Once you pull out all the stops and you see what you’re capable of, why would you put stops in—…

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