Satya Nadella jokes Nvidia needs ‘transfer of market cap back to’ Microsoft

00:00 Jensen Huang

Nvidia was founded because of Windows. It was 1992, late 92, uh, Windows 3.1 and we were just started to see the the vision of what a what a personal computer really can be.

00:15 Jensen Huang

And at the time, frankly, we had never, I’d never even seen a PC before. I largely worked on workstations. We had, you know, we had uh file servers and supercomputers that we used to design chips with.

00:27 Jensen Huang

And and the founders and I, you know, talked about this future where maybe uh a personal computer with 3D graphics would enable it to do things like games and and be a workstation and design things.

00:36 Jensen Huang

And so we we imagined about this world. If not for Windows, uh Nvidia wouldn’t have been founded. and then and of course,

00:46 Jensen Huang

and of course, we we started in 1993. Um, I, Windows 95 really made reinvented

00:54 Jensen Huang

Windows 95. Wow. Am I on?

00:59 Jensen Huang

Windows Windows 95, uh, uh made possible the GPU to be connected to uh, uh a personal computer and what revolutionized the GPU was DirectX.

01:13 Jensen Huang

Direct 3D uh was the API that really uh enabled us to uh, uh, reveal the capabilities of GPUs into applications.

01:23 Jensen Huang

But then DX8 came along and we co-invented with Microsoft the world’s first G programmable GPU, which is programmable shaders, which a few steps later evolved into uh Cuda…