David Rosenthal: belief

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…It’s a lot different, but I appreciate that. We were nowhere near competing with them. If you look now, when CUDA came along and there was OpenGL, there was DirectX, but there’s still another extension, if you will. That extension is CUDA. That CUDA extension allows a chip that got paid for running DirectX and OpenGL to create an install base for CUDA. That’s why you were so militant. I think from our research, it really was you being militant that every Nvidia chip will run CUDA. Yeah. If you’re a computing platform, everything’s got to be compatible. We are the only accelerator on the planet where every single accelerator is architecturally compatible with the others. None has ever existed. There are literally a couple of hundred million—250 million, 300 million—installed base of active CUDA GPUs being used in the world today, and they’re all architecturally compatible. How would you have a computing platform if NV30 and NV35 and NV39 and NV40 are all different? At 30 years, it’s all completely compatible. That’s the only unnegotiable rule in our company. Everything else is negotiable.…

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