[HN Gopher] Nvidia sees AI's "iPhone moment," unleashes barrage ...
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Nvidia sees AI's "iPhone moment," unleashes barrage of plans
Author : russbritt
Score : 19 points
Date : 2023-03-21 19:15 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| Apocryphon wrote:
| Nvidia, I believe, might be the only major tech company besides
| Apple that hasn't pursued any mass layoff plans yet. Curious if
| that speaks favorably of their planning abilities.
| KeplerBoy wrote:
| Nvidia employs around 26,000 people. That doesn't seem a lot
| for a company that's as big as them in hardware and software.
| Coincidentally it's right in line with AMD, which is a lot less
| focused on Software and they haven't had layoffs either afair.
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| That's 5 times the number of employees of companies like
| snapchat or Coinbase. Companies that accomplish very little in
| comparison.
| tuxxi wrote:
| NVIDIA employee in software, opinions are my own.
|
| This is exactly it, NVIDIA is continuously "understaffed" and
| many ICs end up splitting responsibilities across different
| projects at different places in the stack. In stark contrast
| to many other large companies where an SWE team might have
| several entire other teams of 10+ engineers just to support
| the tools, build systems, test runners, etc.
|
| Engineering groups are more fluid and individual contributors
| get moved around a lot (relative to other companies)
| according to demand. And management groups don't really have
| "fiefdoms" the same way they can at huge companies...
| possibly due to the controversial matrix management employed
| here.
| russbritt wrote:
| Chipmaker Nvidia on Tuesday announced a host of initiatives
| designed to broaden its reach in artificial intelligence and take
| advantage of what the company calls AI's "iPhone moment."
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