That’s one angle, and by now after all these years it’s probably aged-into the biggest thing…
But I think there is another angle too…
Once upon a time, nvidea was making hardware for gaming PCs. Seems like a distant memory, and my elder millennial bones creaking can probably be heard by my “OK boomer millennial” comment but:
Friggen crypto came along and nvidea was like “we’ll follow the money: fuck our old gaming customers”. That hurt. Then, right when it looked like that was gonna blow over… LLMs. Dovetailed right back to: “we’ll follow the money, fuck all our old gamer customers”
For all us who just got buttfucked by our old bff, it’s a guilty pleasure.
That’s one angle, and by now after all these years it’s probably aged-into the biggest thing…
But I think there is another angle too…
Once upon a time, nvidea was making hardware for gaming PCs. Seems like a distant memory, and my elder millennial bones creaking can probably be heard by my “OK
boomermillennial” comment but:Friggen crypto came along and nvidea was like “we’ll follow the money: fuck our old gaming customers”. That hurt. Then, right when it looked like that was gonna blow over… LLMs. Dovetailed right back to: “we’ll follow the money, fuck all our old gamer customers”
For all us who just got buttfucked by our old bff, it’s a guilty pleasure.