Inside job?
The Russians did it, the Russians did it.
Trump was right: China is not our friend. Nor the world’s.
It looks like they hacked some passwords of employees.
Why was Nvidia so concerned about cryptocurrency that it block usage of its chips to mine bitcoin? I suspect it was government pressure.
The biggest threat to NVIDIA’s dominance in GPU chip based neural network AI comes from two recent startups, Graphcore and Cerebras. Graphcore builds a Wafer-on-Wafer chip (WoW) that literally bonds two chip wafers together to dramatically reduce the distance between the power supply and GPUs. This eliminates the conductors that create impedance and heat on the chip and allows operation at ridiculously fast clock speeds (10-100x) over NVIDIA’s. Cerebras is even more amazing and has designed a Wafer Scale Engine (WSE) that is the size of a full wafer with 10s of trillions of transistors. This combined with a very sparse software matrix architecture allows them to build electronic neural nets with more connections than there are synapses in the human brain.
Both of these startups are US founded companies like NVIDIA but, unfortunately, they are both built exclusively by Taiwan Semiconductor in Taiwan. If the CCP can destroy NVIDIA’s market and take back Taiwan and its industries like TSM, they will own the hardware that will make Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) feasible in the future.
I have to admit that I wish I had the source code to the driver for the NVIDIA Quadro K5100M in my laptop so I could make some improvements to it.
The problem is companies don’t have professionals in the IT departments and they dont want to pay for them. They have a lot of unskilled clerks. And let’s face it the companies that have customers private data are not punished criminally, when it leaks out because of their negligence or incompetence. And they are covered by arbitration agreements with their customers preventing them from being held civilly liable.
You want to to change things. Eliminate binding arbitration agreements in relationships where private data is being kept by the service provider. And make the civil punishments brutal monetarily.
Cost companies money and put CIO’s in prison for failure to reasonably secure their systems, data, and networks and things will change.
ping