At the moment it feels like the proverb about gold rushs and shovels
Except the gold is actually poop and the shovels require burning several trees per dig
They were years ahead of the curve with AI hardware, and they’re well placed to benefit from the AI craze.
Regardless of whether a company’s AI product is useful, or profitable, they need lot of hardware to make it run.
To illustrate your point, my old GPU, a GTX 1080 from 2016 (basically ancient history - Obama was still president back then) remains a very useful for ML-applications today - and this isn’t even their oldest card that is still relevant for AI. This card was never meant for this, but thanks to Nvidia investing into CUDA and CUDA being useful for all sorts of non-gaming applications, the API became a natural first choice when ML tools that run on consumer hardware started to get developed.
My current GPU, an RTX 2080, is just two years younger and yet it’s so powerful (for everything I throw at it, including ML) that I won’t have to upgrade it for years to come.
I wish it were as easy to make money on stock prices going down as it is to make money on stock prices going up
You could buy options
I’m not employed by Nvidia though? Unless I’m misunderstanding
Anyone can trade options. See https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/putoption.asp
This is very risky though, I wouldn’t recommend doing this without some training and research.
I’m Not a financial advisor
That goes back to my original point, “I wish it were as easy…”
And still no updated Shield TV. 😭
I mean, one of the core ideas behind these things is that these are highly capable devices that are receiving updates for several times as long as normal tech, so you can just keep using them for ages.
Apart from the very latest codecs, what else should they do that they aren’t already doing?
What’s missing in the shield? I have a gen 1 and it still plays anything I throw at it. High bitrate HDR 4k video etc.
Nothing is missing - but mine’s 5 years old and I want to make sure it can be replaced before it finally dies.
Even first gen ones from 2015 are still being used. I don’t think these die all that often. They will be obsolete at some point, but even this takes far longer than with other tech. As long as you make sure it doesn’t overheat, it should last for a while longer.
Yeah, I was surprised there were still lots of people using the 2015 version. It’s a good sign so hopefully mine will be good for a long while still.
