> Huang argued that the simple existence of CUDA would enlarge the supercomputing sector. This view was not widely held, and by the end of 2008, Nvidia’s stock price had declined by seventy percent…
This is a good example of how investor behaviour can only quantitatively project what will happen in the future. Huang's bet on GPUs for high performance computing made sense in the long term.
Intel didn't have the staying power with the i860[1] a decade earlier (and of course had no idea how to offer decent developer tools). I tried really hard to develop meaningful and executable programmes with an 8bit card (DSM). CUDA was a revelation for me.