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Penny stocks on the rise: HALB, NHMD, GSTC
Prepare for the AI boom ahead! NVIDIA intends to raise $10 billion through mixed shelf offering
I'm going to make so many deepfakes with the GTX cards I buy with these 20k in NVDA gains
Intel's Arc A380 GPU should go on sale in the US for the first time this month (August 22).
$GTXO: GTX Corp (OTC Pink: GTXO) Launches 4G GPS SmartSole across Germany in Partnership with ProteGear. com
$GTXO Begins Selling at Home COVID Test Kits
$ACST - Some companies keep investor better informed than others. Here's the update from Acasti Pharma. Good days ahead!
$GTXO GTX Corp Signs Development Collaboration and Reseller Agreement with LifeConnect
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Glad my GTX 1070 is chugging along
The 8800GTX was untouchable, they ran away from ATI immediately with that one and never really looked back. I don't remember it getting 'roasted' at all, that point was basically the end of ATI contesting the high end market seriously except for some oddball dual GPU cards.
> Huang predicted the need for accelerated computing decades ago and built a company ready to take advantage of it when it happens - and it did. Yeah, the 8800GTX came out in 2006. It got roasted because it gave up die area to the concept of general compute while AMD focused on graphics and excelled.
QQQ under 600 during GTX keynote would be UNAMERICAN
Congrats all holders of $RCKT! Still a way to go until March 28th approval date but positive investor call yesterday means £5 option calls already in 🤑 My next play to look ahead to is $GRCE. Institutionally backed small cap with PDUFA for GTX-104 on target date 23rd April which looks promising! DYOR 👀
Congrats all holders of $RCKT! Still a way to go but £5 calls already in ... and still nearly a month to go until approval date 🤑 My next play to look ahead to is $GRCE. Institutionally backed small cap with PDUFA for GTX-104 on target date 23rd April. Looks promising! DYOR 👀
I made two bids on a GTX 1070 video card in 2018 and they nuked my account for “suspicious activity.” Fuck you eBay.
I’ve had this stock since 2016. It’s surreal how great the company has become. And I only bought because I had a GTX 970 and thought “this is the coolest shit ever”
the most true and loyal Nvidia customers knew well enough to hold company stock. Pays for a 5090 many times over. Source: trained my first model on a GTX 980 Go back to your casual games.
At what temperature do I bake my 8800 GTX to get it working as there is no warranty support?
Yea, GTX beat everything and falls... WTF... NICE and ETSY is weird, sales and revenue miss but pumps. I think my EPAM and LKQ puts will save me... FTI, PRAX, LMND calls maybe, but I'm leaning toward flat with those due to IV issues.
Garrett Motion (Nasdaq: GTX) reported full-year 2025 net sales of $3.584B (up 3% reported, +1% constant currency), net income of $310M, adjusted EBIT of $510M, and adjusted free cash flow of $403M. The board declared a $0.08 per-share dividend payable March 16, 2026. Garrett repurchased $208M of shares in 2025 and authorized a new $250M repurchase program for 2026. Full‑year 2026 outlook: net sales $3.6B–$3.8B, adjusted EBIT $520M–$570M. “In 2025, we delivered solid growth, stronger margins and healthy free cash flow while expanding our product offerings. Our turbo business continued to win globally, and we accelerated in zero emission technologies, securing our first production wins for our E‑Powertrain and E‑Cooling technologies. At the same time, we made significant progress in further broadening our portfolio in industrial applications for power generation and industrial cooling.
Well looks like you were right on GTX... they beat EVERYTHING but fell... Hopefully I do better with PRAX ... SMH
GTX: The Chapter 11 was back in 2021. Today, accelerating institutional investment, consecutive earnings beats, strong chart. And it's a cheap bet. PRAX: Recent positive Phase II trial results, strong institutional money flow, and currently the chart is strong & ready to jump up. My concern if any is the stock moves big on news, not necessarily earnings.
Why $PRAX and $GTX? Garett has new investors, but no one really uses their stuff and they went bankrupt not too long ago. [https://www.marketbeat.com/instant-alerts/filing-principal-financial-group-inc-invests-169-million-in-garrett-motion-inc-gtx-2026-02-18/](https://www.marketbeat.com/instant-alerts/filing-principal-financial-group-inc-invests-169-million-in-garrett-motion-inc-gtx-2026-02-18/) [https://investors.garrettmotion.com/news-releases/news-release-details/garrett-motion-successfully-completes-chapter-11-restructuring](https://investors.garrettmotion.com/news-releases/news-release-details/garrett-motion-successfully-completes-chapter-11-restructuring)
Closed today: - TP on Calls: ADI • PODD • RSI • TNL - TP on Puts: FVRR Opened today: - Calls: PRAX • GTX • FTI - Puts: NICE • EPAM • ETSY • LKQ *DISCLAIMER: Nothing here is investment advice, and certainly not recommendations. Do not pass go and do not collect $200 because Monopoly money is fake, just like our fiat currency...*
I have been a longtime holder of HON since the late 1990 via their DRIP program. I initially was invest $100/month then switched to $500/quarter, added extra cash along the way. Sold ASIX, REZI and GTX spin-offs and purchased more HON. It is my largest individual position nearing 7 figures. I have only sold once (100 shares) to redo the kitchen during Covid. SOLS is not as slow growth as people think as they have unique positions with little competitions in many of their segments (like uranium purification)- it will do well in the long term as they will offload under performing segments. The more interesting thing to me is that HON did not take a hit with the spin-off. I am now eagerly awaiting aerospace and automation spin-offs.
Mining isn't even done with graphics cards anymore, it would be completely ineffective at making money because the electricity cost would be higher than what it produces. Mining is all done now on purpose built ASICS built specifically for mining bitcoin https://a.co/d/02RU0Qkm A $500 Bitcoin miner has 100x the hashrate as a +$2000 Nvidia GTX 5090 https://www.hashrate.no/gpus/5090
my homeboy Huang first get all gamers to buy his GTX cards so games are now shitly optimized, then the crypto fucks to buy his RTX cards so terrorists can venmo each other, then AI retards to build data centers with his servers so chatbots can read markdowns. The man goes to Korea and Samsung and SKhynix immediately tear their factory down for him, get entire USA stock market rooting for his fam, get his cousin be the CEO of the main competitor. And you still take him seriously. GG
my 5070 is coming in today, I'd have gone 5090 but I just play this golf game and probably some CS2. Figured 10 years on the GTX 970 was probably enough.
I have been a longtime holder of HON since the late 1990 via their DRIP program. I initially was invest $100/month then switched to $500/quarter, added extra cash along the way. Sold ASIX, REZI and GTX spin-offs and purchased more HON. It is my largest individual position nearing 7 figures. I have only sold (100 shares) once to redo the kitchen during Covid. SOLS is not as slow growth as people think as they have unique positions with little competitions in many of their segment - it will do well in the long term as they will offload under performing segments.
Shhhh, don’t tell anyone here about GTX. It’s actually a good stock
Garrett Motion (GTX): The stock has a bull flag breakout on the weekly chart. GTX is undervalued with strong expected earnings growth of about 18% for 2026. GTX is poised to benefit from the changing trends in the auto market.
Nvidia have always been a duplicitous company, dating back many years. For me, at least, it started with the GTX970 3.5GB debacle and the 'GeForce Partner Program' anti-competitive activities. Throw in their desire to directly control editorial decisions of journalists at the risk of being blacklisted by Nvidia, SEC investigations in 2020, and all the others too. In short, Jensen has all the charm of a pubic louse, and gives the impression he would sell his mother for a buck. He actively lies in presentations "4090 performance!", and generally is representative of much of what is wrong with humanity.
This a very personal decision that is hard to say unless we know the stock. For me, I started investing in HON DRIP in the late 1990s after a work colleague talked incessantly about them. At the time, I knew very little about the stock market. Initially, I invested $100/month then switched to $500/quater and occasionally added some bonus dollars. I stopped contributing about 4 years ago. I would also add extra dollars back in the day and sold their spin-off ASIX, REZI and GTX and reinvested back into HON. Today, it is by far my largest individual holding nearing 7 figures. I only sold once - 100 shares to redo our kitchen in 2021. My plan is to pass it on to my heir at a stepped up cost basis to minimize taxes. At the same time, I invested in low cost mutual funds. I retired early 12 years ago and have been living the good life. Slow and steady with the race, avoid YOLO and FOMO. GOOD LUCK.
I started investing in HON DRIP in the late 1990s after a work colleague talked incessantly about them. Initially $100/month then switched to $500/quater and occasionally added some bonus dollars. I stopped contributing about 4 years ago. Today, it is by far my largest individual holding nearing 7 figures. I only sold once - 100 shares to redo our kitchen in 2021. I would add extra dollars back in the day and sold their spin-off ASIX, REZI and GTX and reinvested back into HON.
Most people that have the budget to buy a 1080 TI will have upgraded by now. According to the Steam hardware survey, more people are running the GTX 1080(non-TI) than the RTX 3090 or the RTX 5090.
I have been a longtime holder of HON since the late 1990 via their DRIP program. I initially was invest $100/month then switched to $500/quarter, added extra cash along the way. Sold previous spin-offs ASIX, REZI and GTX and purchased more HON. It is my largest individual position nearing 7 figures. I have only sold (100 shares) once to redo the kitchen during Covid. SOLS is not as slow growth as people think as they have unique positions with little competitions - it will do well in the long term.
Nice buyback announcement from GTX today [https://www.stocktitan.net/news/GTX/garrett-motion-announces-250-million-share-repurchase-program-for-qgym2aw7378m.html](https://www.stocktitan.net/news/GTX/garrett-motion-announces-250-million-share-repurchase-program-for-qgym2aw7378m.html) >**Garrett Motion (Nasdaq: GTX)** announced a Board-approved **$250 million** share repurchase program for calendar year **2026**, effective **January 1, 2026** after the current program expires on December 31, 2025. Management may repurchase shares via open-market purchases, block trades, or private transactions at times and prices it deems beneficial. >The company reiterated a target to return **75% of Adjusted Free Cash Flow** to shareholders over time through dividends and repurchases, subject to market conditions and Board discretion. The program has no minimum purchase requirement and may be suspended or terminated at any time.
Ha. I had a 2500. Upgraded the GPU to a GTX 980 two or three years ago. It was dragging. I made a new PC this past summer. It was only about $450 given my budget setup. It was well worth it.
They need to make the GTX 1080-2
Interesting. Funny enough, bought some GTX like a week or two ago. Yeah, I'm really excited for the spin offs. I really want to see the material and the aerospace business. Been investing in a lot of those type of companies. Stuff like CRS and ATI have been awesome to hold and great businesses. Same with a lot of aerospace names like MOG.A.
I have been a longtime holder of HON since the late 1990 via their DRIP program. I initially was invest $100/month then switched to $500/quarter, added extra cash along the way. Sold ASIX, REZI and GTX and purchased more HON. It is my largest individual position nearing 7 figures. I have only sold (100 shares) once to redo the kitchen during Covid. SOLS is not as slow growth as people think as they have unique positions with little competitions - it will do well in the long term.
Yeah GPUs don't hold their value long term. I mean they do NOW because VC funded startups have choked the supply but that's more of a scarcity reason than say technical leaps. It also depends on the card. Consumer / GTX cards would depreciate faster than the datacenter ones. The datacenter cards are tested and rated for 24/7 operation. I remember after the 2017 crypto boom a bunch of cards hit the market that were used for mining and the life you get out of them just isn't the same as if they were used for light gaming. Alot more fan death, artifacts - general hardware failure.
Either a 6800 Ultra or 8800GTX probably convinced this guy lol
Same, just had too much in data center stuff and moved more into aerospace and now doing some more boring names like GTX, ODC and RL
Step aside. I still use a GTX 970. 💪
Bro, don't throw shade at my GTX 1080ti like that
Zuck - dead last in AI race Insane turnover in his AI shop, throwing a billion at a guy here and firing a guy there Yet, somehow, switching to Google TPUs is going to put him back in the game I might be a fucking retard for bagholding NVDA right now, but META investors are mega retarded considering how he fucked up the multiverse and now he cant even get a decent LLM out that some bro could code in his basement with an GTX 1080
It'll happen again, in the mid-late 2000's they had similiar sentiments arount the 8800 GTX OC. They defo don't do it on purpose.
I worked at a computer store back with the 6 series and 7 series were the big boys. Believe me. The GTX 970 might as well have been a second coming. There was a reason it was the single most popular card pre crypto boom. But the 1080 can still play, makes perfect sense.
There was a GTX1080Ti in the files. It's over for nvda. That card was the tits
The GTX in one of my computers also counts, right....
Yeah, boring, but wanted to get something like that with RL. GTX is a bit of a growth and more of my style. GILT was a small position, but another name I've been watching for like a year and wanted to pull the trigger after a bit of a pull back and the ER being solid.
Ended moving some capital around finally pulled the trigger on GILT, RL, and GTX.
Going to start new positions in GTX and REVG monday.
Man, I remember looking at GTX when it was $5.... everything is obvious in hindsight!
Still waiting for some new companies to hit the screener. However, thinking about buying some REVG and GTX today.
I’d rather own Nvidia and its chips than companies like Open AI basing their revenue on using a GPU for 10 years. Imagine using a GTX 1060 against a competitors using a RTX 5090. These companies are selling rubes and naive investors a myth.
$CDLR has been on a nice run the past few days. Company seems really cheap based off their fundamentals and interesting play on green energy. They build out special fleets for offshore wind. Just have a hard time pulling the trigger on something so CAPEX intensive. [https://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=CDLR&p=d](https://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=CDLR&p=d) Also came across another interesting name this morning, not sure if anyone follows them, $GTX? Looks pretty solid from a fundamental stand point: [https://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=GTX&ty=c&ta=1&p=d](https://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=GTX&ty=c&ta=1&p=d) Here's what they do: > > > > Growth seems a bit slow, but ROIC looks great: [https://quickfs.net/company/GTX:US](https://quickfs.net/company/GTX:US) Looks like they are buying back a lot of shares, they took out 10% last year and 1.5% QoQ.
$CDLR has been on a nice run the past few days. Company seems really cheap based off their fundamentals and interesting play on green energy. They build out special fleets for offshore wind. Just have a hard time pulling the trigger on something so CAPEX intensive. [https://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=CDLR&p=d](https://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=CDLR&p=d) Also came across another interesting name this morning, not sure if anyone follows them, $GTX? Looks pretty solid from a fundamental stand point: [https://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=GTX&ty=c&ta=1&p=d](https://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=GTX&ty=c&ta=1&p=d) Here's what they do: >Garrett Motion Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, and sells turbocharging, air and fluid compression, and high-speed electric motor technologies for original equipment manufacturers and distributors in the United States, Europe, Asia, and internationally. >The company offers cutting-edge technology for the mobility and industrial space, including light vehicles, commercial vehicles, and industrial applications. >It also provides mechanical and electrical products for turbocharging and boosting internal combustion engines, as well as compressing air for fuel cell compressors, and compressing refrigerant for electric cooling compressors. >It offers its products in the aftermarket through distributors. Garrett Motion Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Rolle, Switzerland. Growth seems a bit slow, but ROIC looks great: [https://quickfs.net/company/GTX:US](https://quickfs.net/company/GTX:US) Looks like they are buying back a lot of shares, they took out 10% last year and 1.5% QoQ.
value =\= utility It will be outdated and it would be cheap to build one with the same capacity, but never the less they are still usable, just like there are plenty of people rocking their 10yo GTX1080
Proud GTX1070 owner here.
Oh yeah, forgot: - Had a 8800GTX and set up mining, stopped after getting 4 BTC because it was making my room hot and spent them on weed
I bought NVIDIA right before it went to the moon. In 2013 and again in 2019. A GTX 770 and a RTX 2070 super.
It's wild to me that NVDA is basically the economy now, when I was buying the GTX 1060 as a kid.
The one that kills me is back in 2014 I was doing deep learning research in grad school. Convinced my advisee to buy a bunch of GTX 980s. Got into an argument with the head of the departments compute cluster about Nvidia GPUs vs Intels offerings. I remember even saying something like, If I wasn't on a grad school salary is buy Nvidia stock because they have no competitors and deep learning will change everything. Rip
Tbf, I might also be autistic, but for me it was building my first PC around the new GTX 550 Ti for Skyrim's release on Christmas 2011. Possibly also some subliminal messaging from listening to that sweet Nvidia *whisper* every time I booted up Civ IV for years before.
"we are done when i say we are done" - me to my GTX1060
It's crazy how upgrading to a 1060GTX is responsible for me making a bag.
Funny how my 1060 GTX is directly responsible for making me a huge bag.
First time I ever mind was in 2013 and believe it or not back then the AMD gpus were faster. 7070Ghz Ed vs GTX680. IIRC the best dollar per watt at the time was either the 7850 or the 7870 from AMD. I sure shit wish I'd thought Bitcoin was more than just "a phase" and kept track of those coins. A well, c'est la vie.
That is an AWESOME comparison! Especially since I have shares of NVDA and do not have the GTX 1080Ti. :)
This was literally me. GTX 1080 was my first new Nvidia card. It was a game changer. Gaming, video editing, Autocad every god damn thing I did, my PC crushed it because of this card. About two years of owning it and I realized this company was beyond all its competition and started buying stock. I plan to put the graphics card in a glass case and hang it in the entry of my house that will be completely paid for by Nvidia. Thank you Jensen, I love my 4080 now.
I'm still using the GTX 1060 6GB, and it can still play a lot of games at high settings on my 1080p monitor. I still feel like my monitor is a bigger bottleneck than my gpu
They were all pretty good tbh. I know people still rocking the GTX 1060 6GB by just playing new games on low settings.
GTX 10 series was a legendary generation of GPUs. Best price to performance of any generation tbh.
They definitely can. It's just going to go basically back to probably around 1080GTX eras GPUs for Nvidia. Idk probably zen1 for AMD. Basically energy bills and summer is gonna suck donkey balls
I thank the lord that AI, stables diffusion, and the GTX 5090 did not exist when I was 18. Horny teenage me would have been a world class elite gooner
The reason AMD was able to beat Intel because in 2015 era when Lisa Su became the CEO they csme up with Ryzen 1 (it uses chiplet arch). Imagine like lego bricks. Intel was using a diff arch, they rried hard for few years trying to come up with the fastest chip, 1-2 model were able to beat the benchmark as wel but AMD kept on increase chiplets (thus cores and Ghz speed) and Intel simply could not deliver. Same arch is now planned for MI cards, right now nVidia has a big lead but if someone who has followed nVidia from last 20 yrs might know how they have been increasing the card sizes, fan sizes, fin sizes. No doubt their gaming cards GTX 780, GTX 1080, RTX 2080 and RTX 3090 are becoming giants in size. Its mainly to dissipiate heat. You can do this only upto a certain limit. There is also a theory running around in nVidia office that nvIdia is not making any new gaming cards because there is not much they can do without increasing further sizes and fans which is becoming a bottleneck (I have couple friend working for nVidia). nVidia might lose the HW edge in next 2 yrs but they have massive software edge which could be tough to break but I again software is easier to make as well. I expect AMD to catch soon.
Coreweave bagholders run zoom on GTX 5090
Does Chyna want my old GTX 1080TI instead?
You do realize Nvidia's offices were raided in France for supposedly threatening GPU allocation if partners switched right? It's not the only example of Nvidia coercing it's partners either. Back in 2018 Nvidia's GeForce partner program was canceled after it was found out that Nvidia conditioned allocation of it's GPUs to partners based on whether they pulled premium branding from AMD products. I should point out that while the GPP was canceled, the parties to the original GPP contract (Gigabyte, MSI, and ASUS) have indeed pulled their premium SKUs from AMD. Go and look at the 7000 and 9000 series AMD products from Gigabyte, ASUS, and MSI. Their top end SKUs in Suprim, Master, and Strix aren't available on AMD. Nvidia has lost 3 partners (BFG, XFX, and it's biggest partner EVGA) due to it's abusive behavior. Anyone claiming Nvidia doesn't have a long history of being crap to it's partners and anti-competitive is either ignorant or lying. That's before we even get into Nvidia's past shenanigans with GameWorks, cheating benchmarks, lying to investors, or lying about the amount of VRAM on it's video cards (it was sued and lost for failing to disclose the fact that the GTX 970 had 0.5 GB of slow memory it didn't disclose to customers). I mean a single glance at Nvidia's benchmark numbers will tell you what kind of company it is. "2x the performance of last gen" when blackwell is barely 3% faster in a like for like comparison to Lovelace.
My favorite mornings are when I hold overnight and stonk goes up 10%. only thing I did different is put a GTX970 under my pillow and slept in a leather jacket.
3 digit cost basis, bought a house in 2019 with what I managed to mine with a GTX 680 in High School and my first two years of college. Still holding generational wealth. HFSP
Battery still good changed it last year and it stays on a battery tender in the garage. Changing plugs now. It’s a 2022 GTX 170 debating selling it or trading it in for an RXP-X 300 but idk shits paid for and only has 150 hours on it. https://preview.redd.it/93jvxnir6ocf1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=27626cf7f1931154f8ef1f7ba2d8143d8f5f5834
I bought my first and only PC on Newegg back in 2013 for $1200. Had a i7-3770k, a GTX 680, and a gigabyte motherboard. It’s still trucking along to this day. I would like to see GameStop buy Newegg.
Problem is NVDA wasn't $2.77 in Feb 2017 it was over $100 per share pre-split. And since you 'bought 1080 shares in honor of my GTX1080 that year' we know you lied about that part of the story. So now the question is which other parts did you lie about?
>My first purchase was for 1080 **(in honor of my GTX 1080 I bought that year)** You're full of it. Got caught in an obvious lie and now you're awkwardly backtracking but digging yourself into obvious contradictions. It's pretty pathetic that you made up this story for attention.
But you stated you bought 1080 shares in particular - 'in honor of my GTX1080 I bought that year'. Cute story.
GTX didn’t hold onto much of its gains today because the company is running out of money and will have to raise cash (diluting shareholders), and a lot, by the end of the year.
Ok, but YOU said you bought 1080 shares because you got a 1080 GTX graphics card. You obviously either bought 27 shares and magically predicted they would turn into 1080 shares someday, or you made it up dude.
I was wrong, it was 1080 shares in today’s shares with all the splits. So it was probably 50-100 shares that became 1080 over the years. When I wrote that number, I remembered I had a GTX 1080 at the time and that made sense why I bought that many now that I think about it more, you are right. I never bought 1080 back then but that’s just how much the shares are as of yesterday when I sold.
True, I didn’t know this though. Thats what I thought at the time. Crazy GTX prices were equated to the crypto boom. If that was true or not, that was the narrative
https://preview.redd.it/z4zpguiyz2cf1.jpeg?width=1439&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b178801902ef23284671b81dfe389b25acc91255 Good to see another early nvda investor. I bought it originally because I built a PC with a GTX 1080ti back in 2017 and I was impressed with how it performed. Then in 2018 I read about Nvidia's involvement with autonomous driving and decided to invest more.
Sorry, my Fidelity account just shows the stocks as valued today. It’s all too confusing for me so if I said I bought 1080 in 2017 then you gotta do the math to find out what that was back then. I’ll admit it, I made up the GTX 1080 tribute in hindsight. In reality I probably bought 30 shares back then. If you go to the Nvidiastock sub, I posted the actual screen shot there.
Stick to it. I have been investing in HON since the late 1990's via their DRIP - initially $100/month then switched to $500/quarter added extra from my bonuses or extra cash and sold previous spin-offs (ASIX, REZI, GTX) and rebrought parent. By far my largest individual holding. Only sold once (100 shares) during Covid to remodel the kitchen. Probably not touching anymore but will give to heirs to get the stepped-up cost basis. Good Luck.
Find something you use and everyone uses and something everyone will eventually use. *Invest in that company*. In November 2017, I bought 8 nVidia GTX 1080ti's for $800 each to mine. That's $6,400.00 in hardware that becomes obsolete in a year. Also cost me $600 a month in electricity for the 3 months I mined. Was making $300 a day. I made roughly $18k. At the time NVDA was roughly $5. Had instead of the hardware invested in the company, I'd have 1,280 shares if NVDA, I'd have $200k. Now, we could go back to May 2000 when I was 13 and overclocking a GeForce2 Ultra ($180 at the time). NVDA was $0.20, or 900 shares for a card. And as innovative as AAPL was, they were stagnant for almost 2 decades until the iPod/iPhone niche market became global.
Jensen Huang was one of the most hated men by gamers when GTX1080 were all scalped for cryptocurrency mining back when NVDA was the shovel seller in that hype market bubble. Now it’s… not so different
1st moat is not really a moat, if anything it's a curse. The most expensive and bleeding edge chips (e.g. Nvidia and AMD) will never be on Intel because Intel is directly involved in competing with them (as uncompetitive Intel is on all fronts). They may get a slice on consumer and lower end stuff (e.g. Nvidia used Samsung 14nm on GP107 i.e. GTX 1050/Ti; Ampere consumer on SS 8nm), but never the truly flagships like GB200 or MI400 / EPYC. People do not trust Intel the way they do with TSMC - and justifiably so - what goodwill Intel has build up over the last 20 years but a streak of failure to put it bluntly? At least Samsung Foundry (as messy as they are in their own incompetence) actually have some products to show for when it comes to the bleeding edge; what had Intel Foundry exactly done so far? I struggle to name something that will make me go "Yes this is the thing". Yes, they will get government contracts but GF also exists and most military chips does not require anything close to bleeding edge. 2nd moat is fine but the reality is that x86 has peaked and it's only downhill from there, or at best a slow and steady decline. There is a reason why everyone wants to move away - difficult sure as we have seen but it is inevitable over the long term. Unless there are significant revision to x86 itself I don't see a growth picture here.
And I'll be "Chief Masturbation Officer" aboard the ISS-Leather Jacket, a GTX class transport freighter traveling between Mars and the outer colonies!
Oh and PC building regrets??? I was building a gaming pc and looking to get a GTX 285 in late 2009. I didn't understand at the time how valuable bitcoin was going to be, but I was competing with bitcoin miners for this video card. The card was like $300+ dollars and I was like why would you buy a video card to make something that you can't even get back the worth of for several months? You could literally generate two bitcoins a month with that card. And here I am wasting the graphics card just playing battlefield
Posting from my Huawei tablet. I'll take the reasonably priced HappyEnding coutesian bot over the Jackotron 6090GTX that will catch your dick on fire lmao
You can't possibly believe that. I just built a spare parts PC for my brother's friend because everyone was sick of having to play quickplay with the only console friend on Marvel Rivals. A Ryzen 5 2600X that was $99 in late 2019 and a GTX 980 Ti I bought for $175 second hand in early 2020 and they're playing Marvel Rivals at 1080p 75hz on low settings. That graphics card was released in June of 2015.
I have investing HON since the late 1990's via their DRIP - initially $100/month then switched to $500/quarter added extra from my bonuses and sold previous spin-offs (ASIX, REZI, GTX) and rebrought parent. By far my largest individual holding. Only sold once (100 shares) during Covid to remodel the kitchen. Probably not touch anymore but give to heirs to get stepped-up cost basis.
Making puts on NVDA from my shitty ass GTX1650 feels like a crime Me: "don't watch little one"  Also me: "FUCK YOU NVDA, I HOPE YOU GO TO 0, BURN BURN BURN you bull fuk!" 