Nvidia is more than a chip company
Most people know Nvidia for the climbing stock in their portfolios, or the GPUs on every tech company’s Christmas list.
Key points
- Huang is 63, and while he has said he could run the company for decades to come, the current investigations raise questions about the future of one of the world’s most consequential companies.
- Nvidia’s computing platform and programming model, the software that essentially underpins the modern AI industry, created one of the most valuable moats in business history.
- Reed’s view Nvidia has been battered over the past couple of days, but it could get worse.
Nvidia may still mint money, as demand for the company’s products shows no signs of slowing down.
He bet billions on the development of NVLink, a nervous system that allows discrete GPUs to act as one massive supercomputer, and the $6.9 billion acquisition of Mellanox Technologies, the Israeli networking company, in 2019.
Additional details
- Once it gains independence on semiconductors, it will be able to scale faster than the US.
- Nvidia will be a crucial player in the effort to stay ahead of China.
- In most sectors of the economy, CEOs are expected to run businesses well, but they are generally interchangeable parts — albeit expensive ones.
- That is, if founder and CEO Jensen Huang is forced or chooses to step down, or if investigations pin him down for doing something illegal.
- But his creation of the CUDA platform in 2006 is perhaps the best example of how he’s been able to step ahead of the industry for decades.
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