""We're abolishing this product line. We're going to move 2,000 engineers off of project X onto project Y," said Haas, adding that the company had only about 6,000 people at the time."
""You have this amazing set of characteristics of vision, speed, fearlessness, taking risk, and an ability to pivot very, very fast," Haas said of Huang, adding that he has "learned so much" from working with him."
Jensen Huang once scrapped a product line at Nvidia and reassigned 2,000 engineers overnight when the company had about 6,000 employees. The shift moved resources away from making support chips for Intel processors and toward Arm-based CPU designs and graphics chips. That rapid pivot redirected thousands of engineers and reshaped Nvidia's trajectory. Rene Haas later left Nvidia in 2013 and became CEO of Arm, which counts Nvidia as a flagship customer combining Arm-based CPUs with Nvidia GPUs. Nvidia attempted a $40 billion acquisition of Arm in 2020 that failed due to regulatory hurdles. Arm focused expansion on cloud, networking, automotive, and IoT.
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