Definition

CUDA

CUDA is NVIDIA's 2006 programming platform that let ordinary C-style code run on GPUs instead of disguising math as graphics operations. Every major ML framework, including PyTorch, TensorFlow, and JAX, is built on it, and over four million developers know it. The book argues CUDA, not the chips, is NVIDIA's real moat: competitors can build faster silicon but cannot replicate two decades of ecosystem.