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Re: Nvidia Grace CPU

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Post by sbierwagen »

arebop wrote: post #109
Gigachad wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not much of a shortage. I just checked and they are all available for pickup right now at my local small city store. Compared to other products they are still extremely available.

Interesting, I see nothing available from store.apple.com until 6 April earliest, and 29 April for m1 max and even later depending on options.

I bought an M1 Macbook Air mid-February. The site gave me a ship date of four weeks later, but actually shipped from China in eight days, and arrived at my office a couple days later.

Given what a mess shipping has been for the last two years, they appear to be taking the "underpromise, overdeliver" route on shipping quotes.

Re: Nvidia Grace CPU

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Post by ganbatekudasai »

kllrnohj wrote: post #122
didip wrote: post #41

heh, does Intel have any chance to catch up? They fell so far behind.

Of course they have a chance to catch up. Only a fool would count Intel down & out. Intel is still larger by revenue than AMD, NVidia, and ARM combined. This will probably cost them some market share, but they have plenty of cash to weather there current manufacturing issues, they still have world-class CPU design talent which they've proven over and over and over again, and they have some very interesting products &…

The CPUs are designed and made by Apple, the ISA is licensed from ARM. Those are not like ARM Cortex CPUs that are actually designed by ARM.

Re: Nvidia Grace CPU

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Post by userbinator »

Who bets that the amount of detailed information they'll officially[1] release about it is "none" or close to that? I still think of Torvalds' classic video whenever I hear about nVidia. The last thing the world needs is more proprietary crap that's probably destined to become un-reusable e-waste in less than a decade.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30550028

Re: Nvidia Grace CPU

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Post by boondaburrah »

nickelcitymario wrote: post #59
fazzyfoo wrote: post #26

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Not by a long shot. PS2 and DS outsell by about 50 million units.

"PS2? That can't possibly be right..." https://www.vgchartz.com/analysis/platform_totals/ Holay molay.

(clicks link) time to get /sad/ about being a SEGA fan again.

More seriously I wish some of the old consoles were officially opened because the absolute install base of PS1 and NES compatible hardware must be insane. Indie NES games specifically have become popular lately, but I don't think any of the 3D capable consoles are popular or open targets.

Re: Nvidia Grace CPU

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Post by kllrnohj »

ganbatekudasai wrote: post #142
kllrnohj wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Of course they have a chance to catch up. Only a fool would count Intel down & out. Intel is still larger by revenue than AMD, NVidia, and ARM combined. This will probably cost them some market share, but they have plenty of cash to weather there current manufacturing issues, they still have world-class CPU design talent which they've proven over and over and over again, and they have some very interesting products &…

The CPUs are designed and made by Apple, the ISA is licensed from ARM. Those are not like ARM Cortex CPUs that are actually designed by ARM.

Where do you see these are Apple designed CPUs? There doesn't seem to be anything indicating that, and that would be massive news.

Re: Nvidia Grace CPU

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Post by sp332 »

015a wrote: post #77
overtonwhy wrote: post #73

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It was the most affordable DVD player. I think Sony owned patents on some DVD player tech? Same with PS4/5 and Blu Ray if I'm remembering correctly

This was also kind of the case with the PS3. Its sales weren't fantastic at release, partially because of its... $600 (?) price tag. But even at that price, at its release, it was one of the cheapest ways to get a Blu-ray player, and many people bought it for that.

A lot of early Blu-ray players had terrible load times. Long enough to be pretty annoying. The PS3 had the CPU horsepower to play discs quickly.

Re: Nvidia Grace CPU

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Post by arvinsim »

arebop wrote: post #90
Gigachad wrote: post #88

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The products don't get produced in order. The high value products get priority and continuously bump out low value chips like those on the RPI. Not sure what the cost of this Grace chip is but it looks to be targeting high value users so it gets priority. Notice how there is no shortage of chips for iPhones, because Apple just buys the capacity at whatever cost it takes.

Though, there is a shortage of m1 MacBooks. Is it really because they are low value (margin?) products relative to iPhone? I'm not sure.

There was a few months back. Now they seem to have more reasonable timetables.

Custom build Mac Studio, on the other hand, takes 10-12 weeks.

Re: Nvidia Grace CPU

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Post by Gigachad »

JamesonNetworks wrote: post #126
sb8244 wrote: post #120

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I bought the 16GB air for 1000 and it's easily the best laptop I've ever owned. Fantastic value

Picked up a refurb 16GB air just last week. I'm astounded at the battery life. It's my dream laptop. I wanted to buy a framework for the repairability, but I make some iOS apps and also really wanted the battery life. I've been floored by how long it lasts, even running npm installs and compiling Angular applications, things that used to burn my lap and drain the battery in 4-6 hours on my Intel air.

The macbooks are starting to become somewhat more repairable. The latest one has pull strip adhesive for the batteries which makes user replacement massively easier.

Re: Nvidia Grace CPU

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Post by chippiewill »

melling wrote: post #6
luxuryballs wrote: post #2

Reading this makes a veteran software developer want to become a scientific researcher.

Way too late for me. I think adding machine learning to my toolbox at least gets me knowledgeable. https://www.kaggle.com/ When Jensen talks about Transformers, I know what he’s talking about because I follow a lot of talented people. https://www.kaggle.com/code/odins0n/jax-flax-tf-data-vision-...

> I know what he’s talking about

Robots in disguise?

Re: Nvidia Grace CPU

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Post by ganbatekudasai »

kllrnohj wrote: post #145
ganbatekudasai wrote: post #142

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The CPUs are designed and made by Apple, the ISA is licensed from ARM. Those are not like ARM Cortex CPUs that are actually designed by ARM.

Where do you see these are Apple designed CPUs? There doesn't seem to be anything indicating that, and that would be massive news.

Err sorry, I thought we were talking about the Apple M1 as in another comment subthread here, but that wasn't this one actually.

But my point still stands I think, isn't this CPU designed by Nvidia, also just with an ARM-licensed ISA? Similarly AMD you mentioned in your list shares its ISA with Intel, and yet the CPUs are completely different.

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