GPU's are a family business it would seem.

Su's mother and Nvidia co-founder and former CEO Jensen Huang are first cousins. Su's maternal grandfather is the eldest brother of Huang's mother.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Su

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[–] 50 points 1 day ago (4 children)

It's insane how many people are brainwashed into believing that historic wealth distribution doesn't have an overwhelming impact on present wealth and success.

My parents achieved middle class from poverty but never learned how to manage money because their parents were uneducated farmers, orphans, etc. I grew up around both rich and poor kids. Most of the kids who went into "high skilled" "professional" roles had parents in those disciplines, and the wealthiest have the wealthiest grandparents. Even the "pros" that didn't have that were far from poor. The poorer kids I knew are blue collar at best, but many fell to addiction, suicide, or fell off the face of the earth.

For every decamillionaire who came from the middle class, there are dozens whose families were already millionaires in the 20th Century.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Yes, but it’s still a massive coincidence that cousins who never met, a decade a part in age, raised by different families in different parts of the US are both CEOs of the two largest GPU manufacturers in the world.

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  • [–] 7 points 17 hours ago

    I agree it's a hell of a coincidence, but also a hell of a long game and they were both EEs.

    Rough timeline:

    • 1984 Huang graduates and starts working at AMD
    • 1985 ATI founded
    • 1986-1993 Huang bounces between grad school and other tech companies
    • 1993 Huang founds NVidia
    • 1994-2012 Su graduates and starts at Texas Instruments, goes on to other companies
    • 2006 AMD buys ATI
    • 2012 Su joins AMD
    • 2014 Su becomes CEO of AMD

    Back in 2012, both companies were not that significant. Very different from today. Like Intel was worth roughly 8x NVidia and AMD combined.

    So did AMD, 6 years after buying NVidia's biggest rival, intend to hire Huang's relative to form a GPU cartel? Maybe. There's plenty of other scenarios where it seems more obvious that things were done because of family connections. I wouldn't be surprised if it came out that was the case, but I'm on the coincidence side (for now).

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