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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 conradfr »

md5person wrote: post #41
tootie wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree with your sentiment, but the number is way below 99%. You can't blissfully ignore that a substantial number of people on both sides really hate each other. You can't say your PM is a jerk, but not the people because the people voted for him (or at least his party).

Seriously? Would you say the American people are "jerks" because Trump was voted into power? That's not how any of this works.

This may be off topic for HN but what do you think the rest of the world think of Americans?

Re: Nvidia to Acquire Mellanox for $6.9B

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Post by objektif »

scirocco wrote: post #24
krembo wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Not occupy but surely controls import/export into Gaza?

Yes thats what he meant occupy is like the bare minimum of what they are doing. They do so much more.

Re: Nvidia to Acquire Mellanox for $6.9B

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Post by peter303 »

novaRom wrote: post #19
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?

SGI dominatinated the 3D graphics market until NVidia upended them. SGI sold whole integrated workstations while nVidia was an addon board coprocessor. A PC plus NVidia cost much less than a SGI workstation.

Re: Nvidia to Acquire Mellanox for $6.9B

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Post by corndoge »

simula67 wrote: post #85

With nVidia's poor kernel record, I hope this does not adversely affect switchdev [1]. Hopefully one day we can run the same OS on servers and switches [1] http://www.mellanox.com/page/products_dyn?product_family=262...

switchdev is currently dormant. None of the silicon vendors seem to be willing to put the work in, so there's no adoption from the SDN/NOS space. We are still stuck with HALs.

Also, there are multiple solutions to run Linux on switches, most notably Cumulus Linux and VyOS

Re: Nvidia to Acquire Mellanox for $6.9B

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Post by godelmachine »

I had great respect for Mellanox when I came to know that they invented InfiniBand.

Again, I am suprisied it’s valued at only $6.9Bn.

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

Re: Nvidia to Acquire Mellanox for $6.9B

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Post by godelmachine »

abcdef123xyz123 wrote: post #77
jabl wrote: post #23

This is interesting. Mellanox has apparently been under activist investor pressure to reduce their R&D expenses and pay more dividends. And then there was the rumors that Intel were interested, but apparently Nvidia in the end offered more. From a HPC perspective I think it's good Nvidia got the deal, Intel is already a quite dominating force in that market, and if they'd have gotten the deal it wouldn't have surpris…

We have been moving away from IB for our platform (algorithmic trading) since Ethernet now has almost comparable latency and is a lot easier to understand and manage.

May I ask what’s IB?

Re: Nvidia to Acquire Mellanox for $6.9B

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Post by raphaelj »

godelmachine wrote: post #95

I had great respect for Mellanox when I came to know that they invented InfiniBand. Again, I am suprisied it’s valued at only $6.9Bn. 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

Market values profit, not produced value (i.e. revenue).

Re: Nvidia to Acquire Mellanox for $6.9B

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Post by jvzr »

Cyph0n wrote: post #74
fxfan wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

how on earth can you compare children toting guns and shouting `death to israel` with whatever the israeli kids are taught? (I doubt they are even told about Palestinians, tbh)

> I doubt they are even told about Palestinians, tbh Assuming this were true, how exactly is it a good thing?

I don't think parent claimed it was a good thing, more like "yeah Israeli children are not taught to shout death chants at Palestinians, in fact I'd venture they are not even taught about Palestinians". Not better, not worse, just a different stroke of bad.

Re: Nvidia to Acquire Mellanox for $6.9B

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Post by sacheendra »

godelmachine wrote: post #96
abcdef123xyz123 wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We have been moving away from IB for our platform (algorithmic trading) since Ethernet now has almost comparable latency and is a lot easier to understand and manage.

May I ask what’s IB?

infiniband - The high performance interconnect by Mellanox
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