Business Insider: "OH MY GOD THE CEO OF NVIDIA SAID A THING! HURRY WRITE ANOTHER ARTICLE ABOUT ASIAN BUSINESS JESUS' LATEST PEARLS OF WISDOM!"

@chud@nicecrew.digital @Hoss@shitpost.cloud Largely true for TSMC in Taiwan, albeit they do pay above local market wages and their families can afford children. Nvidia? Not in the least. One of the reasons they're the huge stock in this "AI" period is they pay very well, they don't pay like the typical "hardware" companies such as Intel and AMD (scare quotes because AMD's stuff is also fabricated by TSMC, as is Intel's current "AI" and GPU offerings). Which doesn't work at all for good software people. Part of how spending billions of dollars over two decades to make GPU computing generally useful actually worked and positioned them for their current success.

And their drivers actually fucking work.

I want team AMD to win, but they keep taking Ls on this.

@Hoss@shitpost.cloud @chud@nicecrew.digital @gentoobro@shitpost.cloud Ah, it's not in AMD's DNA to do well for very long. Going back _decades_ they're routinely done well than then massively pissed that away. Maybe it's different now, but they were infamous for never making their stockholders money over the long term. I only started personally watching it in like the Am486 era, but that wasn't followed up on (or well). K8 was a ___smash___ hit at a time Intel was massively screwing up in three major ways (Netburst, Itanium, and FSB), but starting with K10 they wandered in the wilderness for how long? Then Zen started doing well again (although never quite as good as they project??). But I don't trust them at all post K8, or to continue to do well in in CPUs. _They_ don't think they're going to do well in CPUs, see buying ATI back in the K8-ish days, and now buying the leading FPGA company. Their deployment of capital tells you want you need to know. Heck, that doesn't speak well of their faith in their GPUs....