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Nvidia Part I: The GPU Company (1993-2006)

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Invidia, Is It a Disadvantage?

Vidia, by being first and not projecting out the expedential change that would come from more's law, was actually at a disadvantage. They didn't get a chance to watch and see where the standards were adopted. And so sort of designed for a constraint that was no longer true by the time everyone else came out with their stuff. So when all this goes down, the company has about nine months of runway left. At this point, jenson and his cofounders kind of had to look at each other and say, ok, do we scrap everything we did? The only thing we can do standardizen on the same micro soft, you know, direct three d as everyone else

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