Jensen Huang

Here's the way it went.

We invented this thing called CUDA, and it expanded the aperture of applications that we can accelerate with our accelerator.

The question is, how do we attract developers to CUDA?

Because a computing platform is all about developers.

And developers...

don't come to a computing platform just because, you know, it could perform something interesting.

They come to a computing platform because the install base is large.

Because a developer like anybody else wants to develop software that reaches a lot of people.

So the install base is in fact the single most important part of an architecture.

The architecture could attract enormous amounts of criticism.

For example,

No architecture has ever attracted more criticism than the x86 as a less than elegant architecture.

But yet, it is the defining architecture of today.

It gives you an example that in fact so many risk architectures, which were beautifully architected,

incredibly well-designed by some of the brightest computer scientists in the world, largely failed.

And so I've given you two examples where one is, you know, one is elegant, the other one is barely aesthetic.

And so...

Yet x86 survived.

InstallBase is everything.

InstallBase defines an architecture.