GPU’s are a family business it would seem.

Su’s mother and Nvidia co-founder and former CEO Jensen Huang are first cousins. Su’s maternal grandfather is the eldest brother of Huang’s mother.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Su

  • JustTheWind@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    14 hours ago

    My favorite part about US monopolies is: Even when you think there’s at-least two companies that own everything… Haha, no, fuck you, they’re all in the same god-damn trench coat. Sell everything you own to survive and then rent from us permanently and forever, peasant.

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      14 hours ago

      I’ve told this story before, but fortunately nobody reads anything I write. I used to work for Comcast, at their HQ in Philly, as a contractor writing mobile apps. One day my boss (from my contracting company) came by my cubicle and said we were going to meet with Time Warner Cable to discuss writing some apps for them. I started to put my coat on but my boss stopped me. We then rode the elevator up to the 16th floor of the Comcast Center where TWC had a suite of offices. This was shortly before the attempted merger between the two companies; I remain surprised that the FCC put the kibosh on it, since the two companies were already effectively merged. I guess sometimes the bribes just aren’t big enough.

  • JcbAzPx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    261·
    20 hours ago

    Well, yeah. There’s a reason AMD doesn’t compete on the high end for graphics cards and it’s not that they don’t know how. Jensen even straight up said in an interview that they don’t compete.

    They’re not even remotely trying to hide it.

    • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      5 hours ago

      Us, it’s just us, and not the same kind of fucking… well i hope

    • kestrel7_7@lemmy.worldEnglish
      211·
      22 hours ago

      I tell people all the time, feudalism never really went away, it just became capitalism. Folks try to argue and I’m like “so did you or anyone you know pay any rent to a landlord lately? Interesting word, lord.”

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        14 hours ago

        feudalism never really went away

        Eh. There’s a real difference between an intergenerational perpetual land endowment and a couple of cousins who got rich in the same high growth industry at the same time.

        Capitalism killed feudalism, often in the literal sense. A bunch of the folks dropping guillotine blades on French nobles’ heads were members of the bourgeois.

      • Soleos@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        20 hours ago

        Not a defense of Capitalism here, but that’s a bit off base from what the concepts are.

        What you are talking about is general hierarchy of power with large disparities and concentration of power. Both systems are characterized by them. However, Capitalism by definition rejects the fundamental rules that make up Feudal systems.

    • baltakatei@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1·
      19 hours ago

      Seems like a function of central bank-level investors using familial ties as a shortcut for determining competence and trustworthiness for loans.

  • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    13 hours ago

    I wonder if the rich and powerful female CEOs have… hmm, I don’t even know the male equivalent of “mistress”, surely it isn’t “master”…

    I’m sure they sometimes cheat on their spouses, but do they ever get caught using their wealth and power just to get extra sex?

    • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zipEnglish
      31·
      10 hours ago

      I cant necessarily speak for billionaire rich, but i know for a fact that women are not far behind men when it comes to these things. If they have the opportunity and the likelihood of it remaining secret, women are similarly likely to exploit power and wealth imbalances as men in that situation.

      Some years ago i watched a documentary about wealthy, middle aged western women who are apparently travelling to certain places in africa to basically buy some fuckboys. It follows a group of friends who go there annually, paying young and poor men to “date” them. One of them tells the camera he hates it, and often has to take drugs or boner pills to even get hard because the women are generally older and unattractive.

      So, the whole “old white guys go to asia to fuck for cheap” stereotype is only half the truth.

      • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        9 hours ago

        Why would the women agree to be in a documentary like that? Not only does it out them as sex fiends, It outs them as women so ugly that the men need a boner pill.