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How Nvidia became a trillion-dollar company

CIO Business Intelligence

Still, software developers seeking to leverage graphics chips for non-graphical applications had to wrangle their calculations into a form that could be sent to the GPU as a series of instructions for either Microsoft’s DirectX graphics API or the open-source OpenGL (Open Graphics Library).

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Tech leaders size up what it’ll take to turn Pacific Northwest into a ‘Quantum Valley’

GeekWire

The Seattle area has been there before: as Jet City, by virtue of Boeing’s dominance in commercial aviation; as Satellite City, by virtue of the satellite factories built by SpaceX, Amazon, LeoStella and Xplore; and as Cloud City, by virtue of the leading roles played by Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure in cloud computing.

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