Is This Just the Beginning?

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In 20 18, another class of problems that are embarrassingly paralyzable is, of course, crypto currency mining. So a lot of people were going out and buying consumer envidiagnographic cards and using them to set up crypto mining rigs in 20 16, 20 17. And then when the crypto winter hit in 20 18 and the end of the i c o craze and all that, the mining rig demand if elephant. This had become so big for invidia that their revenue actually declined. Right? Yes. Well, i think there probably will be a big part of jenson's vision that he paints for invidia now, which we'll get to an asacis

By 2012, NVIDIA was on a decade-long road to nowhere. Or so most rational observers of the company thought. CEO Jensen Huang was plowing all the cash from the company’s gaming business into building a highly speculative platform with few clear use cases and no obviously large market opportunity. And then... a miracle happened. A miracle that led not only to Nvidia becoming the 8th largest market cap company in the world, but also nearly every internet and technology innovation that’s happened in the decade since. Machines learned how to learn. And they learned it... on Nvidia.

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