Comment by fooblaster
5 days ago
CUDA was profitable very early because of oil and gas code, like reverse time migration and the like. There was no act of incredible foresight from jensen. In fact, I recall him threatening to kill the program if large projects that made it not profitable failed, like the Titan super computer at oak ridge.
I remember it being less profitable than graphics for a long time.
It did make money that would be interesting to a startup, but not to a public company.