The former CEO of Intel bluntly said that he was too arrogant at the time: he did not like Nvidia GPU at all

Kuai Technology reported on July 18 that former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger admitted in a recent public sharing that during the golden period when Intel dominated the global semiconductor industry, the company had completely dismissed Nvidia's GPU products, and did not expect that the latter would grow into a computing power giant that later disturbed the entire industry. When talking about how great entrepreneurs can accumulate industry value through long-term investment, Gelsinger took the initiative to bring up Intel's special mentality towards Nvidia in its early years, and pointed out the arrogance bias common among industry leaders at that time. He recalled the state of the industry at that time and said that at that time Huang Renxun was really just focusing on building special equipment for high-performance computing scenarios. During the most glorious period of Intel's CPU business, the entire company did not pay attention to Nvidia. Everyone felt that GPUs were just niche accessories sought after by game enthusiasts and could not become the core computing power base to support the development of the industry. The subsequent technological trend of the entire industry quickly exceeded Intel's predictions. Gelsinger also mentioned in his reflection that Nvidia later did not limit itself to the iteration of the GPU hardware itself, but spent more than ten years slowly building a complete set of underlying software ecosystems such as CUDA and SIMT around the hardware. "Each generation of products and each layer of technology stack continues to be polished and evolved. This development path that insists on long-term product improvement is very similar to the style of Apple founder Steve Jobs," the former executive said.