If y’all think this is crazy, wait til you find out the entire US economy has been ruled by a few handfuls of families lol. Makes this shit seem like nothing in comparison.

why do you think amd sounded like one of the tech bros, or agreed with nvidia on building AI DATACENTERS.

Wouldn't you?

Jensen's ladytoy was also a Huang.

So it might even be a third cousin

Data centre first company is what burned any goodwill I had for AMD. What a complete misstep.

Edit - we kept them alive for the last 15 years, and this is the thanks we get.

I mean it’s the same thing as the RAM industry colluding fo make prices exorbitantly high. Of course they’re all going to maximize profits at all costs, they get sued into losing their roles at the company if they don’t loot everyone for all their money at all times

For most was it ever about protest? If on Windows where most people are NVIDIA has been the better option for a long time, but if using Linux NVIDIA turns into a headache to get working properly compared to AMD.

So this is more like a Pixel phone situation where if someone wants custom roms like lineageOS or GrapheneOS to get away from corporate spyware its one of the top choices. Ironic because Google sucks, but other OEM phones and rom communities for it have died out. And same applies to AMD due to NVIDIA linux support being subpar and becomes a nightmare once support drops completely.

I think mine was maybe a little over $1k, back pre-RAMageddon.

https://www.amazon.com/ASRock-RX7900XTX-PG-24GO-Graphics/dp/B0BTPK5J68

It looks like one can get them at about that price still.

People liked AMD for the same reason people like Pixel phones. Not because the company is wonderful, but the hardware allowing more modification and support for open source activities. And very little options when it comes to the hardware criteria they are looking for compared to those that stick to corporate operating systems.

Wish more companies were consumer coöps. Shareholders will always be unaligned with stakeholders.

I understood that reference.

What Voodoo is this?!

Source?

"Oh no, I sold my CPUs to a small Japanese company called Nintendo. 183 million handheld consoles may not be quite your league but I'm happy."

And my family is all engineers too. That's not the comparison. The French and English were always fueding, but French and English royalty intermarried.

AMD and nVidia are direct competitors. Corporations today are essentially microfeudalist societies without strict borders. The CEOs are the "top executive brass" of the company owners. The company owners, usually the people make up the board, are the top stakeholders.

In our modern age of corporate feudalism, Royalty is the billionaire class. Executives and board members of publicly traded companies are the nobility. Just like in Feudal Europe, Royalty can have as much power and oversight as they desire, and nobility is often granted quite a bit of power dependant on wealth and benefit to royalty.

One greater family controlled both France and England. One greater family controlled both AMD and nVidia.

With a generous severance package, I presume?

They did say that the Nvidia CEO is transitioning

Nvidia is mostly not open source,AMD is (or was?) both.

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.

okay but both Su and Huang come from middle class immigrant families not families with generational wealth.