[Dr. Sivana]

Remember GM and Ford going all-in on electric cars, only to discover the demand was not there.

This is not completely analogous. It is true that some superior chips (e.g. Alpha) never found an audience. Apple has been able to force their M series on the client base, but Apple has changed Chip families multiple times with remarkably little interruption (680x0-->PowerPC--->x86--->ARM derivative).

If a steam deck power by the nVidia chips can play Steam games, run high-end workstation programs, or perform server activities better, there will be an audience because nVidia has the resources to convince buyers that support will be maintained. I am assuming that the nVidia product either performs faster, costs less to operate, or both.

[fireman15]

I had an interesting conversation with Gemini 3.5 about a video that Nvidia released yesterday about this subject. Here is a link to that conversation that I found quite interesting.

https://gemini.google.com/share/2ced7468918e

[FrankRizzo890]

I built an OLTP data center out of Alpha based machines running Windows NT. They were LIGHTNING fast for the time.