NVIDIA's Shanghai R&D center predates CUDA 1.0: China was central to early GPU computing
tinyfool · x · 2026-11-14
virushuo shares a little-known history: NVIDIA's Shanghai Zhangjiang R&D center was established before CUDA 1.0 shipped, and much of the early CUDA work was done there, with several Chinese universities among the earliest adopters of CUDA.
He laments that GPU computing and AI were largely products of global collaboration for most of their history — making today's decoupling feel especially disillusioning.
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