Acquired · Mar 28Nvidia: The GPU Company (1993-2006)
Founded in the 1980s and bootstrapped, it was the number two graphics maker and the only other survivor of about 90 rivals. It matched programmable shaders and AMD bought it in 2006.
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- Jensen Huang believes that if you aren't reinventing yourself at Moore's law speed, you are dying▶ 1:14:01Nvidia reinvented itself with the emulator-built chip and then programmable shaders, while the other 88 startups disappeared.
- Jensen Huang insisted on being CEO of a merged company and killed AMD's offer to buy Nvidia▶ 1:29:30AMD bought ATI in 2006 after the Nvidia talks failed.
