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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announces new AI chips: ‘We need bigger GPUs’

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Re: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announces new AI chips: ‘We need bigger GPUs’

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I think at this point, they should stop making it video “cards” but rather video “stations”, a full tower station with power supply and one giant “card” inside with proper cooling, etc., might also justify the crazy prices anyway.

Probably better to stick to the GPUs. Integration is a low margin game.

granted, at this point we plug the computer into the GPU, so it might not make a difference...

Re: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announces new AI chips: ‘We need bigger GPUs’

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because their stock value is highly coupled with crypto mining and AI craze. The move from PoW to PoS for most crypto networks in combination with bust of ‘22. NVDA slid down in value. OpenAI debuts ChatGPT in late 2022 and now it’s suddenly bumping in price as the hype and rush for GPUs from companies of all types buys up their stock of GPUs. Demand is far outpacing the supply. Nvda can’t keep up. Thus, share price…

If you are a true believer that AI is not a craze, then the stock can only go up from here. If you think there is a chance that everyone gets bored of AI and moves on to some other fad that is not in Nvidia’s wheelhouse, then it’s probably down from here. I’m staying out of this bet: don’t have the stomach for it.

There's another case for pessimism as well: cost. It's possible that many AI applications aren't worth the money required for the extra compute. AI-enhanced search comes to mind here: how is Microsoft going to monetize users of Copilot in Bing to justify the extra cost? Right now a lot of this stuff is heavily subsidized by VCs or the MSFTs of the world, but when it comes time to make a profit we'll see what actually sticks around.

Re: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announces new AI chips: ‘We need bigger GPUs’

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post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because their stock value is highly coupled with crypto mining and AI craze. The move from PoW to PoS for most crypto networks in combination with bust of ‘22. NVDA slid down in value. OpenAI debuts ChatGPT in late 2022 and now it’s suddenly bumping in price as the hype and rush for GPUs from companies of all types buys up their stock of GPUs. Demand is far outpacing the supply. Nvda can’t keep up. Thus, share price…

If you are a true believer that AI is not a craze, then the stock can only go up from here. If you think there is a chance that everyone gets bored of AI and moves on to some other fad that is not in Nvidia’s wheelhouse, then it’s probably down from here. I’m staying out of this bet: don’t have the stomach for it.

AI is obviously the future, though current iterations will probably die at some point. but the dot com bubble ended up with the internet being more pervasive than may have even been thought of at the time, but regardless even the likes of Amazon's stock went bust before it recollected itself. Not a perfect comparison given Nvidia has really good revenue growth, but the point still stands.

Re: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announces new AI chips: ‘We need bigger GPUs’

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I haven't listened to Jensen speak before, but am I the only one who thought the presentation wasn't very polished? Not a knock on anything he has accomplished, just an observation that sorta surprised me

I remember his opening line at NEURIPS 2017, to an audience of grad students and postdocs, "only Nvidia would unveil their most expensive product to an audience who's completely broke"

Then he went into a comedic monologue about GANS. But hey, at least that meant that the CEO was reading the actual conference proceedings...

Re: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announces new AI chips: ‘We need bigger GPUs’

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Canonical is a ripe target. Canonical has been trying to grow Ubuntu and other tools in the enterprise world for the last few years without significant success, and much of the Nvidia devkit stuff is built around Ubuntu.

Please do not give them this idea. Ubuntu is actually a pretty great daily driver desktop Linux, and I'd hate for that to lose priority and disappear. I'm not a fan of what happened to the Red Hat ecosystem for exactly the same reasons.

As someone who has used Ubuntu in the past and has now moved onto greener pastures, I appreciate everything Canonical and Ubuntu have done for the Linux community but there are many better options today and Canonical is already far from the company it once used to be.

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post #66

I think at this point, they should stop making it video “cards” but rather video “stations”, a full tower station with power supply and one giant “card” inside with proper cooling, etc., might also justify the crazy prices anyway.

https://lambdalabs.com/gpu-workstations/vector

Re: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announces new AI chips: ‘We need bigger GPUs’

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post #66

I think at this point, they should stop making it video “cards” but rather video “stations”, a full tower station with power supply and one giant “card” inside with proper cooling, etc., might also justify the crazy prices anyway.

Probably better to stick to the GPUs. Integration is a low margin game.

I'd prefer they stick to GPUs, but I think you're over simplifying.

Dell proves that selling complete units is very profitable.

Apple shows that owning the entire stack is immensely profitable.

Nvidia already has significant hardware and software investment. They very well could fully integrate and grab larger slices of the pie.

In fact, Nvidia already has complete appliance like fully integrated machines. But enterprises like to install their own OS and run their own software stack. These appliances have not caught on, at least not yet.

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post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please do not give them this idea. Ubuntu is actually a pretty great daily driver desktop Linux, and I'd hate for that to lose priority and disappear. I'm not a fan of what happened to the Red Hat ecosystem for exactly the same reasons.

As someone who has used Ubuntu in the past and has now moved onto greener pastures, I appreciate everything Canonical and Ubuntu have done for the Linux community but there are many better options today and Canonical is already far from the company it once used to be.

Whenever I see an open job req for canonical I run for the hills.
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