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gj_78 | 5 years ago

Agree++. They are good at hardware and should stay that way.

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my123|5 years ago

The thing is: that hardware isn't very usable without good software, and an easy to use software stack at that.

That's what NVIDIA understood and made them what they are today.

gj_78|5 years ago

A lot of hardware has builtin software, either inside a firmware or as a driver. Keeping the software part in firmware lets customer free to use any kind of OS. Using host cpu and memory is bad design IMHO.

blelbach|5 years ago

We employ more software engineers than hardware engineers. Our hardware doesn't really do much in isolation, software is part of the product.

gj_78|5 years ago

The question is not about the head count. How many software engineers at nvidia produce software that is expected run/compile on the host CPU of the customer, like this library ? I expect not too much.