The Impact of Envidia's Building Blocks and GPU Architecture on Various Industries

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Envidia has revolutionized the tech world with their powerful hardware and software, allowing developers to simulate our physical world. These building blocks are not just for gamers anymore, but also used in fields such as predicting air flow, discovering new drugs, and modeling climate change. Envidia's expansion from commodity graphic cards to owning industries like gaming, enterprise data centers, and self-driving car architecture is mind-boggling. The scale at which they operate is unimaginable, with the computation required for speech recognition surpassing the number of grains of sand on Earth. The research speaks for itself, illustrating the immense data and compute required for Envidia's achievements.

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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