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Nvidia to Acquire Mellanox for $6.9B

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Re: Nvidia to Acquire Mellanox for $6.9B

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Post by dep_b »

bhouston wrote: post #8

Interesting fact, Mellanox is an employer of Palestinian programmers in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Sort of a mixed blessing, cheap labor without other options because of the occupation, but real opportunities and a more educated and well off population will be more effective at advocating for its rights: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/business/palestinian-hig...

Who currently occupies the West Bank and Gaza Strip?

But I think it's a good thing. People working together is one of the best ways to get a better understanding of people you would normally never meet. I've met a ton of different people through tech and it's one of the best parts about it. Meritocracy.

Re: Nvidia to Acquire Mellanox for $6.9B

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Post by reallydontask »

dep_b wrote: post #11
bhouston wrote: post #8

Interesting fact, Mellanox is an employer of Palestinian programmers in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Sort of a mixed blessing, cheap labor without other options because of the occupation, but real opportunities and a more educated and well off population will be more effective at advocating for its rights: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/business/palestinian-hig...

Who currently occupies the West Bank and Gaza Strip? But I think it's a good thing. People working together is one of the best ways to get a better understanding of people you would normally never meet. I've met a ton of different people through tech and it's one of the best parts about it. Meritocracy.

Israel?

Re: Nvidia to Acquire Mellanox for $6.9B

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Post by krembo »

reallydontask wrote: post #13
dep_b wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who currently occupies the West Bank and Gaza Strip? But I think it's a good thing. People working together is one of the best ways to get a better understanding of people you would normally never meet. I've met a ton of different people through tech and it's one of the best parts about it. Meritocracy.

Israel?

Israel doesn't occupy the Gaza Strip, and we could argue about the occupation of the West Bank.

Re: Nvidia to Acquire Mellanox for $6.9B

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Post by adev_ »

baybal2 wrote: post #4
penagwin wrote: post #3

I only know of Mellanox for their 10 gigabit ethernet cards. Does anybody know if this is a good or bad thing for Mellanox?

Plumpy "enterprise" customers. They still are the company to go for infiniband, but infiniband it lost much of its appeal to non true supercomputing tasks. Ethernet nowadays can do RDMA, soft guarantees on latency, in-order and reliable delivery at lower costs, and an option to reuse existing L2 networks. Mellanix has squeezed the infiniband cow dry.

> Ethernet nowadays can do RDMA, soft guarantees on latency, in-order and reliable delivery at lower costs, and an option to reuse existing L2 networks. Mellanix has squeezed the infiniband cow dry.

And who did the Ethernet RDMA protocol (RoCEv1/v2) and sell the RDMA compatible NIC that everyone use in the HPC world currently ?

Tip: It is starting by Mella too.

Re: Nvidia to Acquire Mellanox for $6.9B

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Post by novaRom »

auslander wrote: post #12

> .. NVIDIA’s invention of the GPU in 1999 .. Well.. "almost every important company in the 3D area filed lawsuits against NVIDIA" :) https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia,87.html

Thanks. Today I learned people could play 3D games (Quake2) at 25 fps at 1152x864 resolution (Nvidia TNT GPU, K6-2 300 Mhz CPU).

It would be interesting to know how other computing technologies looked like 20 years ago. Is there any good place to find that online?

Re: Nvidia to Acquire Mellanox for $6.9B

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Post by GordonS »

dogma1138 wrote: post #7
penagwin wrote: post #3

I only know of Mellanox for their 10 gigabit ethernet cards. Does anybody know if this is a good or bad thing for Mellanox?

One out of only 2 vendors for InfiniBand which is quite important for HPC especially in the Top 500. They also have some sort of a parallel VLIW CPU architecture that they've been trying to get off the ground for a while now called TILE/TILE64 so that might also play into things. However since NVIDIA opened their offices in Israel a while ago they might simply be looking for an acquihire since Mellanox is a fabless s…

That'd be a lot of money for an aquihire. Are you aware of any other aquihire's in the billion dollar range?
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