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Why Did Jensen Huang Call Specialization the Enemy?
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Jensen Huang says specialization is the enemy of fungibility and the enemy of durability. NVIDIA stays general purpose so the infrastructure keeps that fungibility. The benefit is low risk, and low risk is what matters when the dollars are enormous.
The thought experiment is where to place a hundred billion dollars. A year ago the consensus forecast had NVIDIA flat or shrinking in 2027. The consensus forecast now says NVIDIA will grow 74%, and that earlier forecast was really wrong. Jensen Huang says he already explained the case. Building out 50 to a hundred billion dollars of infrastructure has to stay really good for a long time, no matter what.
Jensen Huang says that once NVIDIA proves extraordinary performance every single day, fungibility and durability translate to rentability, then to productivity and financeability, and therefore to the lowest TCO.
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