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by gregwebs
854 days ago
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When hardware design can be software emulated then iteration can be more agile. There's a story how NVIDIA was the first one to do this for GPUs- this was done out of desperation because they were out of money and had to ship quickly. They didn't have time and money to do any revisions so they just shipped what they had done in software emulation even though some of the features were defective.
https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/nvidia-the-gpu-company-1993... |
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It seems like the publication turned what is industry standard into a sensationalistic article.
The only thing Nvidia did different was rolling directly to tapeout with their simulated design without any intermediate prototypes which was indeed a risky move but not unheard of for cash strapped semi startups.