I was working on a computer graphics lab developing shader compilers for Microsoft back in 2007 when Nvidia went all in in GPGPU by releasing CUDA.
We were all like: "What's the plan here? Run spreadsheets faster?"
Lol, hindsight is a bitch.
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I’m not too techinical, but NVIDIA popularized dedicated GPUs as a concept too, right? From that concept to what GPUs are today is an incredible testament to focus and iteration imo.
No, that was https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/3dfx