Ashwin Nanjappa 🐘<p>Death and Life in Silicon Valley: retirement talk by Erik Lindholm, one of the pioneering graphics hardware engineers at SGI/NVIDIA. Covers his childhood, work at SGI/NVIDIA, his contributions to T&L, programmable shader HW, unified shader HW and creation of CUDA.</p><p>One of the best engineering talks I've seen in quite a while. 5/5 highly recommended.</p><p><a href="https://ubc.ca.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=880a1d92-30d7-4683-80e7-b1e000f501d3" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ubc.ca.panopto.com/Panopto/Pag</span><span class="invisible">es/Viewer.aspx?id=880a1d92-30d7-4683-80e7-b1e000f501d3</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ErikLindholm" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ErikLindholm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NVIDIA" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NVIDIA</span></a></p>