[gwulf]

nvidia is doing amazing work, and many of their employees are in the bay area. 3072 cores for $999 - http://www.geforce.com/.../geforce-gtx.../specifications

The number of companies using this device to solve real problems is growing. Jeremy Howard just started an interesting one - http://www.enlitic.com

[bshimmin]

How is Nvidia a startup? They were founded in 1993 and have 8,800 employees and revenue over $4B.

[higherpurpose]

Nvidia has done great work with CUDA, but I wonder if AMD/ARM's HSA will make the work of the people using CUDA now much easier in the future - compute with a high-level language that you already know. That's got to be some kind of paradigm change there. I just hope they end up supporting Rust, too.

[bjwbell]

Compute on the GPU is unlikely to be unified in a meaningful way with the CPU in the near future. The GPU is a massive SIMD machine in contrast to the CPU.

Even if you use the same language for both, the style of code & algorithms are very different.

[banachtarski]

Nvidia is a publicly traded company lol.