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Patel: NVIDIA Lost $20B+ China Revenue from H20 Ban
“Our revenue estimate for Nvidia in China for just H-twenty was north of twenty billion because that's what they were booking in capacity slash had to write off.”
Dylan Patel Sep 22, 2025 ▶ 8:36 Dylan Patel on the AI Chip Race - NVIDIA, Intel & the US Government vs. China
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Patel: NVIDIA maintains 75% gross margins compared to AMD's 50%
“I make a 75% gross margin as NVIDIA AMD sells their GPUs for 50% gross margin”
Dylan Patel Aug 18, 2025 ▶ 28:47 Dylan Patel on GPT-5’s Router Moment, GPUs vs TPUs, Monetization
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Sacks: Huawei's Cloud Matrix networks 384 chips to match Nvidia rack performance
“Back in April Huawei launched a technology called Cloud Matrix in which they compensated for the fact that their chips individually are not as good as NVIDIA's chips by networking more of them together. So they took 384 of them. Now you use their prowess in ne…”
David Sacks Nov 3, 2025 ▶ 1:03:48 Sacks, Andreessen & Horowitz: How America Wins the AI Race Against China
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Andreessen: Nvidia's market cap passed German and Italian stock markets combined
“NVIDIA, the news of the week is NVIDIA, just NVIDIA, just passed the total market cap of both the German stock market and Italian stock market combined.”
Marc Andreessen Nov 5, 2024 ▶ 1:11:23 Marc & Ben on AI Policy, Safety, Censorship & Unexpected Risks
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Appenzeller: Competitor AI chips match NVIDIA on raw FLOPS performance
“If you look at the pure hardware statistics, so how many floating point operations per second can these chips do? There's others that are very competitive with what NVIDIA has.”
Guido Appenzeller Aug 16, 2023 ▶ 8:33 AI Hardware, Explained.
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Chen: NVIDIA Advocates End-to-End Deep Learning for Self-Driving Cars
“NVIDIA would have you believe that the path to get to a self-driving car is basically deep learning end-to-end.”
Frank Chen Jul 16, 2017 ▶ 8:21 16 Questions About Self Driving Cars
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Mo: Major chipmakers use vLLM as an internal benchmark
“And additionally, VLM also work closely with all the hardware vendors. So that means across like NVIDIA, AMD, Google, and Amazon, Intel, and a lot more, their newest chip will make sure VLM can run on them. And then a lot of cases they use VLM as a benchmark t…”
Simon Moe Aug 5, 2026 ▶ 9:29 How Open Source Became AI's Backbone | Inferact with a16z
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Patrick Hsu: Arc Institute launched Virtual Cell Challenge with $100K in prizes
“We created our own virtual cell challenge at virtualcellchallenge.org where we have, you know, a 100,000 dollar prizes sponsored by NVIDIA and Tenex Genomics and Ultima and others.”
Patrick Hsu Sep 15, 2025 ▶ 54:21 Faster Science, Better Drugs
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