GPU’s are a family business it would seem.

Su’s mother and Nvidia co-founder and former CEO Jensen Huang are first cousins. Su’s maternal grandfather is the eldest brother of Huang’s mother.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Su

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      I tell people all the time, feudalism never really went away, it just became capitalism. Folks try to argue and I’m like “so did you or anyone you know pay any rent to a landlord lately? Interesting word, lord.”

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      Maybe because AMD has a lower marketshare than nvidia and having open source drivers is one way to differentiate themselves from nvidia and to have a USP.

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      Ya like if they all are the same, then why aren’t they? Like is it to maintain the veneer of non monopoly?

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    Even more damning: Jensen Huang used to work at AMD as an engineer, before he became a finance bro.

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    Are you sure? Wig, lipstick, mascara, same person. Have they ever been seen in the same room together?

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    Oooooooh wow that’s the relation.

    I won’t lie this story is straight out of like 17th century Europe lol

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    Not problematic at all /s. Gotta wonder who’s the patriarch of the family and what did they do? Betting on weapons (likely with US backing).

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      You don’t have to wonder, we have the internet lol

      His parents weren’t rich, he was an immigrant child who worked at Denny’s to afford college.

      Nvidia was a gaming hardware company. His billionaire arc is from being at the right place at the right time for the AI boom.

      His cousin was a little more well-off but also wasn’t coming from a crime family. She went to MIT.

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        OK, thanks for delving into the shit that is the current internet, unlikely to be a source of actual truth these days unfortunately, but thanks. I find the coincidence of related CEOs in both major GPU manufacturers highly problematic and want a mechanism behind it. I assume something familial because of experience. Feel free to prove me wrong, provide references.

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          Seems to happen too often on a planet of billions, that families or friend groups keep ending up controlling everything.

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          If you claim big things and disregard information people provide to you that goes against it, you are not opened to be proven wrong.

          Also, the burden of proof is on the one making the claim.

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          Absolutely wild response to publicly available information that hasn’t changed in decades. The only reason you care now is because they lucked into having products that are good at something they weren’t intended to do.

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        Arms are used to kill people. How do you kill someone with graphing hardware?

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          “Soldiers dont shoot people, their guns do” energy.

          The gpu sits somewhere in the middle. Command gives an order, Soldiers press the Buttons, the hardware calculated the target,the computer script fires when the target is locked in.

          And their now looking to eliminate the soldiers to fully automize the process and get rid of pesky individual morals.

          Soon enough war will be ai fighting ai and humans just collateral.

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    As an AMD GPU person I’ve been chuckling at the Nvidia drama from my high horse, but I guess I’m not safe either lmao

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      Anyone who has any loyalty to any company is not safe. The only safe option is to treat companies as your rival. They will charge you as much as you let them, your job is to reciprocate that rivalry by voting against them (and for yourself) and abandoning them for their rivals as soon as they turn on you.

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        People liked AMD for the same reason people like Pixel phones. Not because the company is wonderful, but the hardware allowing more modification and support for open source activities. And very little options when it comes to the hardware criteria they are looking for compared to those that stick to corporate operating systems.

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      Team Red is not the Nvidia protest option we thought it was, especially since AMD is now a data center-first company too. I bought a 7900 XTX a few months ago because it was the only 24GB card still under $1k, but now the price has doubled.

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        For most was it ever about protest? If on Windows where most people are NVIDIA has been the better option for a long time, but if using Linux NVIDIA turns into a headache to get working properly compared to AMD.

        So this is more like a Pixel phone situation where if someone wants custom roms like lineageOS or GrapheneOS to get away from corporate spyware its one of the top choices. Ironic because Google sucks, but other OEM phones and rom communities for it have died out. And same applies to AMD due to NVIDIA linux support being subpar and becomes a nightmare once support drops completely.

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        Data centre first company is what burned any goodwill I had for AMD. What a complete misstep.

        Edit - we kept them alive for the last 15 years, and this is the thanks we get.

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          Are you guys just now learning that corporations have a legal obligation to their shareholders and nobody else? It’s literally built into their DNA like an animal’s drive to reproduce.

          Anyone running AMD who made a different choice would be violating their fiduciary responsibility to the shareholders.

          That’s how C corps are designed.

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            That isn’t what fiduciary duty means. It means they can’t purposefully run the company into the ground. But any choice that can be justified, for example as “I don’t believe this AI thing is going to be all that and we should remain focused on our consumer markets for long term growth” immediately nixes any complaint about fiduciary duty. I mean unless the board can produce evidence that that’s a lie.

            If the board disagrees with the CEO about the direction of the company they can replace the CEO, but again, the board and CEO can do anything reasonable.

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            They don’t have a legal obligation to their shareholders. This is a a huge lie that is told to scapegoat the CEOs that enable consulting firms to carve up competitors for even bigger money. They have an obligation only to the board members.

            This is an IMPORTANT distinction that is what fuedalized corporate America to such an extreme.

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              Here’s an older article from the NYT that goes over in greater detail exactly how correct you are. But let me just say you are so correct and GOD this is a frustrating one to see so commonly believed.

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        I mean it’s the same thing as the RAM industry colluding fo make prices exorbitantly high. Of course they’re all going to maximize profits at all costs, they get sued into losing their roles at the company if they don’t loot everyone for all their money at all times

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          Ah, nice! The only ones I saw otherwise were going for closer to $2k.