<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tverbeure</author><text>Nvidia got lucky because every quarterly all-hands meeting Jensen repeated that he kept on investing in CUDA and adding more silicon to the GPUs than strictly needed because, one day, an application would come along that would make it all worth it.&lt;p&gt;TFA says that Nvidia started aggressively seeding CUDA and GPUs for research in the early 2010s. It was much earlier than that: it started pretty much immediately after CUDA was introduced late 2006. And every new generation there were hardware features added to make GPU programming and porting of applications less painful. The first Nvision conference, precursor of GTC, was in 2008. That’s how you make your own luck.&lt;p&gt;I’ll never forget when, sometime around 2012?, he answered the question: “aren’t you afraid of Intel?”&lt;p&gt;His answer: “Not at all. Intel should be afraid of us. We will be bigger than them.” There was not a trace of doubt.</text><parent_chain><item><author>synergy20</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not that Nvidia &amp;#x27;keeps winning&amp;#x27;, Nvidia failed mobile computing, failed embedded computing, had no market share in the server market or data centers, was left in the niche market of gaming as a companion to PC and was not that impressive all along.&lt;p&gt;then its parallel GPU got &amp;quot;lucky&amp;quot;, first the bitcoin mining, then the AI. it probably did not expect and plan for this, to some extent, it got super lucky.&lt;p&gt;credit must be given to its CUDA ecosystem and the ability to better itself when chances knocked its door, it so far left all competitors in the dust, its showtime arrived, finally.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Nvidia Keeps Winning</title><url>https://www.chinatalk.media/p/why-nvidia-keeps-winning-the-rise</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>brigadier132</author><text>&amp;gt; then its parallel GPU got &amp;quot;lucky&amp;quot;, first the bitcoin mining, then the AI. it probably did not expect and plan for this, to some extent, it got super lucky.&lt;p&gt;I feel like saying they got &amp;quot;lucky&amp;quot; after trying and failing in multiple other endeavors requires a special definition of luck. If someone rolls a 6 sided die six times and they roll a six once did they get lucky?</text><parent_chain><item><author>synergy20</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not that Nvidia &amp;#x27;keeps winning&amp;#x27;, Nvidia failed mobile computing, failed embedded computing, had no market share in the server market or data centers, was left in the niche market of gaming as a companion to PC and was not that impressive all along.&lt;p&gt;then its parallel GPU got &amp;quot;lucky&amp;quot;, first the bitcoin mining, then the AI. it probably did not expect and plan for this, to some extent, it got super lucky.&lt;p&gt;credit must be given to its CUDA ecosystem and the ability to better itself when chances knocked its door, it so far left all competitors in the dust, its showtime arrived, finally.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why Nvidia Keeps Winning</title><url>https://www.chinatalk.media/p/why-nvidia-keeps-winning-the-rise</url></story>