"I/O was king. The compute was very thin. If you looked at those servers, there was the cheapest, simplest CPUs, a decent amount of memory and a ton of flash storage or even disk with lots of I/O. It was an I/O-driven-centric data center."
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https://seekingalpha.com/article/4268580-nvidia-corporation-nvda-ceo-john-stroup-bank-america-2019-global-technology-conference