<story><title>Nvidia to Acquire Mellanox for $6.9B</title><url>https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-to-acquire-mellanox-for-6-9-billion</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>godelmachine</author><text>I had great respect for Mellanox when I came to know that they invented InfiniBand.&lt;p&gt;Again, I am suprisied it’s valued at only $6.9Bn.&lt;p&gt;Pardon my ignorance, but how come mobile apps and websites get valued for 10+ or 20+ Bn dollars , while someone who creates real technology is valued at only $6.9Bn</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matude</author><text>&amp;gt; Pardon my ignorance, but how come mobile apps and websites get valued for 10+ or 20+ Bn dollars , while someone who creates real technology is valued at only $6.9Bn&lt;p&gt;Imagine a building, say a shopping center, airport, or a city main square, that gets the same amount of visitors per day as some of those apps, and it might start to make more sense. Take Clash of Clans for example, valued at $10 billion. It has around 100 million daily active players. One of the busiest airports, the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, has 104 million passengers annually. NY Times square receives about fifty million visitors per year.&lt;p&gt;If something, anything, gets 100 million visitors PER DAY, the value of such a real estate, even if digital, is immense.</text></comment>
<story><title>Nvidia to Acquire Mellanox for $6.9B</title><url>https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-to-acquire-mellanox-for-6-9-billion</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>godelmachine</author><text>I had great respect for Mellanox when I came to know that they invented InfiniBand.&lt;p&gt;Again, I am suprisied it’s valued at only $6.9Bn.&lt;p&gt;Pardon my ignorance, but how come mobile apps and websites get valued for 10+ or 20+ Bn dollars , while someone who creates real technology is valued at only $6.9Bn</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drewg123</author><text>A lot of IB technology is based on precursors like Myrinet, Quadrics, etc.  Those companies were driven from the HPC market and the top500 by Mellanox in the last 15 years.  It is arguable that IB won simply because it had better marketing, and a lot more venture capitol behind it.&lt;p&gt;At one point, 6 of the top 10 supercomputers in the top 500 were interconnected with Quadrics, and over 1&amp;#x2F;3 with Myrinet.  However, both Quadrics and Myricom are both long gone.  And neither of them sold for anything close to $6.9B</text></comment>