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Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B

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Re: Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B

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Post by _9rq6 »

cycloptic wrote: post #137
QuixoticQuibit wrote: post #129

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Look at their AI/CUDA documentation and associated githubs. Many of their tools and libraries are open source. Tell me, what other AI platform works with x86 and PowerPC and ARM? Currently NVIDIA’s GPUs do.

It's good that they open sourced that stuff, but the main problem is that CUDA itself is closed source and vendor locked to nvidia's hardware.

I dont buy laptops with nvidia GPUs because of nightmares I had working with them in 2014-2015. Has the support improved?

Re: Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B

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Post by Ecco »

na85 wrote: post #326
Ecco wrote: post #320

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You’re supposed to drag-solder those. Look it up on YouTube, it’s super easy. The hardest part is positioning the chip, but it’s actually easier than with an oven, because you can rework it if you only solder one or two pins :)

Wow, just looked up a video and some guy did an 0.5mm pitch chip pretty darn quickly. Thank you!

You’re welcome! Also, flux. Lots of it. Buy some good one, and use tons of it. Then clean the hell out of your PCB!

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Post by Tehdasi »

zmmmmm wrote: post #169

Many various reasons for this but one perspective I am curious about is how much this is actually a defensive move against Intel, because nVidia knows Intel is busy developing dedicated graphics via Xe, and if nVidia just allows that to continue they are going to find themselves simultaneously competing with and dependent on a vendor that owns the whole stack that their platform depends on. It is not a place I would…

Intel has been promising high-end graphics for decades, and delivering low end integrated graphics as a feature for their CPUs. Which makes sense, the market for CPUs is worth more than the market for game oriented GPUs. The rise of GPUs used in AI might change this calculation, but I doubt it. I suspect that nVidia just would like to move into the CPU market.

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Post by ChuckMcM »

na85 wrote: post #274
ChuckMcM wrote: post #77

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I would love OpenPOWER to succeed. I just don't see the 48 pin QFP version that costs I don't see OpenPOWER going there, but I can easily see RISC-V going there. So, for the moment, that is the horse I'm betting on.

I miss DIP chips that would fit on breadboards. I don't have steady enough hands to solder QFP onto a PCB, and I'm too cheap to buy an oven :(

https://www.digikey.com/catalog/en/partgroup/smt-breakout-pc... can help. I have hand soldered STM32s to this adapter (use flux, a small tip)

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Post by manigandham »

ncmncm wrote: post #288
systemvoltage wrote: post #245

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Makes sense. IoT was a buzzword in 2013. It is now a mature ecosystem and we've gotten a good taste and smell for it. Its on its way towards the plateau of productivity on the Gartner curve if I were to guess.

The sole meaning of the "Gartner Curve" is the amount of money available to be spent on hype, that Gartner can hope to get. It has the most tenuous imaginable relationship with the market for actual, you know, products.

The Gartner Hype Cycle might be branded but the basic delta between overhyped technology vs actual production processes has been observed for a long time.

Re: Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B

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Post by Lind5 »

Arm’s primary base is in the IoT and the edge, and it has been very successful there. Its focus on low power allowed it to shut out Intel from the mobile phone market, and from there it has been gaining ground in a slew of vertical markets ranging from medical devices to Apple computers. But as more intelligence is added to the edge, the next big challenge is to be able to radically improve performance and further reduce power, and the only way to make that happen is to more tightly customize the algorithms to the hardware, and vice versa https://semiengineering.com/nvidia-to-buy-arm-for-40b/

Re: Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B

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Post by browserface »

Vertical integration. It's the end products, not the producers that matter.

Or maybe, more accurately, the middle of the supply chain doesn't matter. The most value is at either end: raw materials and energy, and end products.

Or so it seems :p ;) xx

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