"Oh such unprecedented demand. The best we can possibly do is to only raise prices by 20% on the consumer side. Otherwise the company would go bankrupt..."
Shameless marketing at it's best. He was aggressively pushing Nvidia's products for AI all over the place today. like everywhere. only though they missed to mention was world peace. Remember how hard they pushed their products for crypto just a few year(s) ago. Not one single word about crypto today. No credibility. None! Zero!
…Your lack of business acumen is showing. A good business–similarly to a person who manages their skillset in the open market well–aligns the times, the state of the market, and the most lucrative demands most sensible to what they bring to the table.
Nvidia nor any company cares about sticking to a audience base if it doesn't serve them to make the most revenue or keep the doors open anymore.
I can assure you there is nothing wrong with my business acumen. Decades of business management experience severs me very well in my assessment of Nivdia above. Expecting customers and partners to forget everything from last year(s) and fully embrace this years slogans. But likely, you are a Nvidia marketer or similar, so I bet we will not get a lot of self assessment or, god forbid, self criticism. Market Management by slogans comes to mind, using terms like "this years strategy" and other oxymorons. If you need further clarification, I advice you to go back to business school and read Porter all over again.
"Remember how hard they pushed their products for crypto just a few year(s) ago."
If by "pushed hard" you mean never mentioned it in a keynote or other presentation, tried (though failed) to limit its use in their general purpose GPUs, and tossed out some lowest-binned chips to the mining market?
As predicted, entirely business focused. Gaming is an ever shrinking priority at Nvidia. Big money is with the vendors not the gamer / end user plebs like us.
Think about who is at GTC! They give a different presentation here than at something like CES or Siggraph. They know their markets.
And yes, they *do* still care about gaming. It's now just one of many markets they play in. However, they're currently dominating gaming and don't really need to push those products as people will buy them regardless.
Disturbing that there's no mention of a strategy to get GPU prices back down. Think $100 to $200 absolute max after taxes and shipping.
Or idk, maybe just fuck it, maybe we should all go back to wood stoves, fuck computers, fuck the internet, fuck society, fuck the whole thing. $400 for a midrange GPU... criminals.
Even if their goal were to reverse the price inflation, there's no incentive for them to telegraph it. That would just put more people off buying in the short-term.
That said, I wouldn't look to Nvidia to lead the charge on cheaper GPUs. We're going to need AMD and Intel to lead on that front. Anyone demanding the fastest performance, where there's no real competition, can therefore expect to be exploited by Nvidia for the foreseeable future.
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James5mith - Tuesday, March 21, 2023 - link
"Oh such unprecedented demand. The best we can possibly do is to only raise prices by 20% on the consumer side. Otherwise the company would go bankrupt..."Gothmoth - Tuesday, March 21, 2023 - link
ngreedia can go and FO! despicable company....milleron - Tuesday, March 21, 2023 - link
It would be very funny if it weren't so true.SystemsBuilder - Tuesday, March 21, 2023 - link
Shameless marketing at it's best.He was aggressively pushing Nvidia's products for AI all over the place today. like everywhere. only though they missed to mention was world peace.
Remember how hard they pushed their products for crypto just a few year(s) ago.
Not one single word about crypto today.
No credibility. None! Zero!
lilkwarrior - Tuesday, March 21, 2023 - link
…Your lack of business acumen is showing. A good business–similarly to a person who manages their skillset in the open market well–aligns the times, the state of the market, and the most lucrative demands most sensible to what they bring to the table.Nvidia nor any company cares about sticking to a audience base if it doesn't serve them to make the most revenue or keep the doors open anymore.
SystemsBuilder - Tuesday, March 21, 2023 - link
I can assure you there is nothing wrong with my business acumen. Decades of business management experience severs me very well in my assessment of Nivdia above. Expecting customers and partners to forget everything from last year(s) and fully embrace this years slogans.But likely, you are a Nvidia marketer or similar, so I bet we will not get a lot of self assessment or, god forbid, self criticism. Market Management by slogans comes to mind, using terms like "this years strategy" and other oxymorons. If you need further clarification, I advice you to go back to business school and read Porter all over again.
Gothmoth - Wednesday, March 22, 2023 - link
no shit sherlock....but there are some companys an then there is ngreedia.
lemurbutton - Tuesday, March 21, 2023 - link
They never pushed their products for crypto.mode_13h - Thursday, March 23, 2023 - link
Um, they had an entire product line of crypto-focused cards!edzieba - Wednesday, March 22, 2023 - link
"Remember how hard they pushed their products for crypto just a few year(s) ago."If by "pushed hard" you mean never mentioned it in a keynote or other presentation, tried (though failed) to limit its use in their general purpose GPUs, and tossed out some lowest-binned chips to the mining market?
mode_13h - Thursday, March 23, 2023 - link
> tried (though failed) to limit its use in their general purpose GPUsThey only did that after they launched a separate line of mining GPUs.
GraXXoR - Tuesday, March 21, 2023 - link
As predicted, entirely business focused. Gaming is an ever shrinking priority at Nvidia. Big money is with the vendors not the gamer / end user plebs like us.Dribble - Wednesday, March 22, 2023 - link
It wasn't a very hard prediction being as this wasn't a gaming conference.Findecanor - Wednesday, March 22, 2023 - link
The conference was for developers of games, AI and high-performance computing alike, but with a high emphasis on AI this year.mode_13h - Thursday, March 23, 2023 - link
GTC hasn't been targeted at game developers for many years. Of all 791 sessions in this year's GTC, only 11 of them are classified as "Gaming".https://www.nvidia.com/gtc/session-catalog/
mode_13h - Thursday, March 23, 2023 - link
> As predicted, entirely business focused.Think about who is at GTC! They give a different presentation here than at something like CES or Siggraph. They know their markets.
And yes, they *do* still care about gaming. It's now just one of many markets they play in. However, they're currently dominating gaming and don't really need to push those products as people will buy them regardless.
Hrel - Monday, March 27, 2023 - link
Disturbing that there's no mention of a strategy to get GPU prices back down. Think $100 to $200 absolute max after taxes and shipping.Or idk, maybe just fuck it, maybe we should all go back to wood stoves, fuck computers, fuck the internet, fuck society, fuck the whole thing. $400 for a midrange GPU... criminals.
mode_13h - Thursday, March 30, 2023 - link
Even if their goal were to reverse the price inflation, there's no incentive for them to telegraph it. That would just put more people off buying in the short-term.That said, I wouldn't look to Nvidia to lead the charge on cheaper GPUs. We're going to need AMD and Intel to lead on that front. Anyone demanding the fastest performance, where there's no real competition, can therefore expect to be exploited by Nvidia for the foreseeable future.