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Jensen Huang’s 1993 bet on computer graphics nearly went badly enough to sink Nvidia. The Economic Times recounts how the company’s first attempt at the technology nearly bankrupted it in 1996, before a change of direction helped its GPUs find uses well beyond graphics.
Why it mattersResearchers later found Nvidia’s GPU architecture suited to deep learning. It is a useful reminder that today’s AI computing boom grew from technology first developed for another job, not a plan that arrived fully formed.
Discuss: Should technology leaders put more weight on adaptable hardware than on predicting which application will take off?
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