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by overfeed 360 days ago
Nvidia spent over $100M last year on ads & marketing itself, and it's an ongoing expenditure. The state college built those great-looking dorms once and sends pictures of them every year to prospective students, so they have ongoing marketing value, in addition to their normal utility. Think of it this way: those dorms are the college-equivalent of CUDA; and how much has Nvidia invested in CUDA?