China: Nvidia Loses Face and a 10 Million PC Order over Linux Drivers and NRE's
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China: Nvidia Loses Face and a 10 Million PC Order over Linux Drivers and NRE's
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Re: China: Nvidia Loses Face and a 10 Million PC Order over Linux Drivers and NRE's
#2It seems the site is down, so here is the Google cache link: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
Re: China: Nvidia Loses Face and a 10 Million PC Order over Linux Drivers and NRE's
#3Link works for me.
Re: China: Nvidia Loses Face and a 10 Million PC Order over Linux Drivers and NRE's
#4I am happy that the Chinese invest this much in Linux. This obviously motivates big hardware makers to release quality/OS drivers for their products, and in the end I benefit from that as well.
I remember the times I had to hack around for days to get some particular piece of hardware to work. That happens less and less, and now most of the stuff I buy just works.
Video cards and capture cards are the big exception for now, they somehow work sometimes, but this is getting better every day, and this news takes us in that direction even more.
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#5As much as I want this to be true, I don't see anything in terms of sources, I've never heard of this site before, and the style of writing doesn't exactly make it seem very credible.
I haven't tried very hard, but didn't immediately find any other sites with this news that weren't simply linking to or regurgitating this article. Losing or winning a contract this size is something you'd expect a lot of well known news sites to cover.
Re: China: Nvidia Loses Face and a 10 Million PC Order over Linux Drivers and NRE's
#6China is investing in Linux for one simple reason - they can have someone read the source code.
A (low-level?) war is going on right now between US and China - and the battlefield are the hardware and software that runs the world.
Can't read the code - then we don't trust that you aren't spying on us.
Unfortunately I doubt they will extend the same rights to their citizens.
On the Nvidia side, this is either the dumbest commercial move ever,(#) or they really do have quite a lot to hide in that code.
(#) Really I cannot imagine anyone turning down an order on 10 M PCs. Whats in that code base?
Edit: @virdah - thank you for pointing out the should-have-been obvious.
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Re: China: Nvidia Loses Face and a 10 Million PC Order over Linux Drivers and NRE's
#8It seems the site is down, so here is the Google cache link: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
Thanks for posting the link!
EDIT: And I get downvoted for saying thanks... so thanks. EDIT EDIT: And a upvote. Cheers!
Re: China: Nvidia Loses Face and a 10 Million PC Order over Linux Drivers and NRE's
#9The article mentions that some of the brightest minds of NVIDIA are now working in China on its future generations of CPUs/GPUs. I don't have the full context, but is it possible that we're seeing the first baby steps of a reverse brain drain?
Re: China: Nvidia Loses Face and a 10 Million PC Order over Linux Drivers and NRE's
#10China is investing in Linux for one simple reason - they can have someone read the source code. A (low-level?) war is going on right now between US and China - and the battlefield are the hardware and software that runs the world. Can't read the code - then we don't trust that you aren't spying on us. Unfortunately I doubt they will extend the same rights to their citizens. On the Nvidia side, this is either the dumb…
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