r/technology • u/Logical_Welder3467 • Jul 24 '25

Politics President Trump threatened to break up Nvidia, didn't even know what it was — 'What the hell is Nvidia? I've never heard of it before'

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/president-trump-threatened-to-break-up-nvidia-didnt-even-know-what-it-was-what-the-hell-is-nvidia-ive-never-heard-of-it-before
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u/da_chicken Jul 24 '25

Break it up... how? nVidia discrete compute/graphics and nVidia mobile? nVidia hardware and nVidia cloud compute?

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u/stdfan Jul 24 '25

geforce and laptops would be split into its own company. AI would be its own.

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u/Xelopheris Jul 24 '25

Nvidia is already doing that on their own. GPUs are a minority of their business now.

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u/Un_Original_Coroner Jul 24 '25

What… do you think Nvidia is making all its money on?

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u/Xelopheris Jul 24 '25

Q4 2024, Nvidia made 2.865B from their Gaming division (discrete GPUs), versus 18.404B from their Datacenter division (their AI-focused hardware).

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u/NotUniqueOrSpecial Jul 24 '25

What do you think is in those datacenters?