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NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition (nvidianews.nvidia.com)
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NVIDIA Board of Directors announced today that Jensen Huang has resigned as President, Chief Executive Officer, and a member of the Board, effective immediately.

Colette Kress, current Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of NVIDIA, has agreed to serve as Interim Chief Executive Officer.

Well, that was fast.

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[–] 18 points 12 hours ago (9 children)

I'm slightly dreading to find out who'll be the replacement. Huang was at least around when Nvidia was still a consumer-focused company. Wouldn't be surprised if the new CEO is even more all-in on datacenters and may decide to exit the consumer GPU business altogether.

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  • [–] 21 points 11 hours ago (8 children)

    Kind of don't care because NVIDIA cards have been a pain for Linux compared to AMD, and I've stopped trying to chase the best graphics with price hikes of cards. Now I just want cards that has the most headache free Linux experimence out the box even if it isn't NVIDIA XX80 or XX90 power, which I wasn't going to buy to begin with.

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  • [–] 15 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

    I'm on an AMD GPU too, but Nvidia dropping out of the market would make prices even worse for everyone.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

    Price already sucks for everyone. I don't plan to get a new card for several years or build a new PC. And I'm actually on a NVIDIA card.

    If AMD and Intel stick around with them having better Linux support I'm more curious about what that'll mean for PC ports, since NVIDIA has been what's been more prioritized with their PC market share.

    Remembering the past with stuff like PhysX and hairworks that would suck on non NVIDIA cards, and games getting dlss while FSR often neglected. When they tried to push gsync for a while before luckily freesync became more widespread.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 hours ago (1 child)

    Prices would get even worse, that's the point.

    You also shouldn't assume that if Nvidia exits the consumer market that AMD/Intel would even try to fill the gap. The corporate world is very much trend following, and if Nvidia left entirely AMD/Intel are more likely to decide to follow Nvidia's lead and also exit.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 hours ago* (1 child)

    AMD has recently announced that they are primarily an AI company as well though.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 hours ago

    Yeah and them saying that hasn't much changed my view of not buying GPU or ram for several years with prices being outrageous anyways. Either there will be GPUs people won't be able to buy unless they overpay or there won't be any to buy at all.

    Will be a question of which will last longer when it comes to support. AMD and Intel when it comes to Linux has been a more pleasant experience for me than NVIDIA cards over the long run with them not being open source drivers, and being a buggier experience as distro over time drop support for legacy NVIDIA cards and having to rely on community driver workarounds for newer versions once LTS support stops for older versions.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 hours ago* (1 child)

    If you think this stops with Nvidia you are missing the forest for the trees.....AI companies want to put a militarized moat around their techno fiefdoms. In the words of Altman “if only all these people didn’t have DRAM at home”

    "did you see the latest model break containment OMGOMG!!!!" I guess the government should step in and serve as gatekeeper for who can have this "dangerous national security threatening" tech......I mean we just can't risk some open weight chinese model or some incel with a local LLM hacking into the pentagon with a rogue AI, guess Antrhopic, Microsoft, X, and Google need to be allowed to form a cartel to control this dangerous tech and we should put strict restrictions on who can buy certain AI components....for national security of course.

    That all swallows AMD too. Who is partnered with Anthropic.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 hours ago

    No I already viewed consumer hardware market as screwed when crucial withdrew from selling storage.

    You were still optimistic. I thought it was already the end. I've considered the PC i have now the last I'll have for years before any of this.

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