CPU

2 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jul 26, 2026 by Jensen Huang · across every show →

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Jul 26, 2026 positive
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Huang: NVIDIA succeeded by augmenting CPUs for specific algorithm domains
“The big idea of the company that was spot on is that it is possible to augment the CPU to solve problems that otherwise are too difficult to solve. And molecular dynamics is one of them. Image processing is one of them. Inverse physics is another one. And so a…”
Jensen Huang Jul 26, 2026 ▶ 5:44 Jensen Huang: The Mindset That Built NVIDIA · Y Combinator
Jul 29, 2026 negative
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Chaubard: CPU-based environment simulation bottlenecks on-policy reinforcement learning rollouts
“The, it's amazing how much of simulators, when you call environment.step, is still run on the CPU, and so that's usually the bottleneck for a lot of your on-policy rollouts”
Francois Chaubard Jul 29, 2026 ▶ 2:50 Multi-GPU Kernels, Intelligence per Watt, Heterogeneous Inference, and More | YC Paper Club · Y Combinator
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