Is a “broken business model” one that requires you to pay for extra additional features?
If Nvidia enabled all their professional features on all gaming SKUs, the only reason to buy a professional SKU would be additional memory.
Today, they make almost $1B per year in the professional non-datacenter business alone. There is no way they’d be able to compensate that revenue with volume (and gross margins would obviously tank as well, which makes Wall Street very unhappy.)
That’s obviously even more so in today’s market conditions.
Do you feel it’s justified that you have to pay $10K extra for the self-driving feature on a Tesla? Or should they also be forced to give away that feature for free? After all, it’s just a SW upgrade. (Don’t mistake this for an endorsement...)
If Nvidia enabled all their professional features on all gaming SKUs, the only reason to buy a professional SKU would be additional memory.
Today, they make almost $1B per year in the professional non-datacenter business alone. There is no way they’d be able to compensate that revenue with volume (and gross margins would obviously tank as well, which makes Wall Street very unhappy.)
That’s obviously even more so in today’s market conditions.
Do you feel it’s justified that you have to pay $10K extra for the self-driving feature on a Tesla? Or should they also be forced to give away that feature for free? After all, it’s just a SW upgrade. (Don’t mistake this for an endorsement...)