CHIPTREE Semiconductor Lab

born in taiwan
> worked as a dishwasher at Denny's
> went to Stanford
> got a job
> quit the job
> went to california
> started nvidia
> pitched sequoia w/o a business plan
> ventured into 3D chips
> launched failed with NV1 chips
> sold 250,000 to Diamond multimedia
> 249,000 returned back to nvidia
> NV1 ended in disaster
> developed NV2 with Sega
> NV2 was also doomed
> had 1 shot to create the perfect chip
> bought "emulator" from a dying company
> made RIVA 128NV3
> nvidia engineers made the best inverse texture mapping engine
> sold 1 million units
> developed first programmable chip GeForce 256
> that was the world's first GPU
> massive success
> went public in 1999
> partnered with Microsoft to build XBox
> didn't want to get trapped in the gaming market only
> 2006, decided to put CUDA in GPUs
> molecular dynamics, seismic processing, CT reconstruction, image processing were now open to explore
> andrew ng came in with his ug student ian goodfellow to build a GPU server in his dorm room
> 100x seedup in training neural networks on GPUs
> Yann LeCunn at NYU as doing the same, all if them reached out to nvidia
> Nvidia decided to put it's bet into AI which was in 2012 a 0 billion dollar market
> nvidia reached to every single AI researcher in the planet
> got positive feedback
> continued building for AI
> OpenAI launched ChatGPT
> suddenly everyone was bullish on AI
> 1999 stock price was today, nvidia stands at $1220+
> a 298,534.15% increase
> 31 years of nvidia
> $3T in market cap in 2024

Jensen Huang and Nvidia, ladies and gentlemen.

Cr: Yael Mendez, ChatGPT & OpenAI

Chiptree Semiconductor Lab are proud of having partial support to the team from Cambodia back then including Solita to build the Flood Water Monitoring System to compete in program organized by Mekong Water Commission in Laos PDR. And our partial support contribute in a way to help a tech enthusiast such as Solita to grow and develop her potential to do more in STEM education and tech in general.

Read full story -> https://usaidpubs.exposure.co/coding-for-change-in-cambodia?mibextid=K35XfP