The CUDA Moment: From Bricking a RIVA 128 at 13 to the 8800 GTX
From bricking an early NVIDIA RIVA 128 at age 13 in Beijing to walking to work at NVIDIA when CUDA 1.0 launched on the GeForce 8800 GTX — the origin of Compusential.
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The Local Silicon Equation: 128GB VRAM, Bandwidth Limits, and Cloud Illusions
Why spending £4,000 on a 128GB NVIDIA DGX Spark alongside an RTX 4090 makes sense: the friction of the cloud hourly meter, memory bandwidth vs capacity trade-offs, and running 131k context on local silicon.