Game-Changer: How the World’s First GPU Leveled Up Gaming and Ignited the AI Era
blogs.nvidia.com
In 1999, fans lined up at Blockbuster to rent chunky VHS tapes of The Matrix. Y2K preppers hoarded cash and canned Spam, fearing a worldwide computer crash. Teens gleefully downloaded Britney Spears and Eminem on Napster. But amid the caffeinated fizz of turn-of-the-millennium tech culture, something more transformative was unfolding. The release of NVIDIA’s GeForce Read Article
  • bw42@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Nvidia’s marketing team must be working overtime. Not the first GPU, not even the first company to use the term. Not even the first GPU with hardware T&L.