NVIDIA's ecosystem headstart vs. custom silicon
The discussion presented a relative case: while custom silicon from cloud giants (Google, Amazon, Meta) is emerging, NVIDIA has a massive ecosystem headstart, making it the safer near-term bet for scaling AI compute.
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