NVIDIA's Moat Grew from CUDA's Dozens of Use Cases

An analysis argues NVIDIA's dominance stems not from a single breakthrough but from CUDA covering dozens of early use cases, with CNNs, LSTMs and Transformers just one that grew huge. The author says NVIDIA no longer needs broad bets and its playbook would be hard to replicate under new leadership.

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