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Re: Nvidia Grace CPU

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Post by ggreg84 » Tue, Mar 22, 2022, 8:47 PM UTC

fazzyfoo wrote: post #26

ggreg84 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which is (EDIT: NOT) the most widely sold console ever.

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

Indeed, wow.

Re: Nvidia Grace CPU

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Post by dekhn » Tue, Mar 22, 2022, 8:51 PM UTC

20220322-beans wrote: post #53

What are people's experience of developing with NVIDIA? I know what Linus thinks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYWzMvlj2RQ

over the past two decades that I've used nvidia products for opengl and other related things, my experince has been largely positive although I find installing both the dev packages and the runtimes I need to be cumbersome.

Re: Nvidia Grace CPU

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Post by namlem » Tue, Mar 22, 2022, 8:53 PM UTC

bloodyplonker22 wrote: post #45

marcodiego wrote: post #21

Time to sell intel shares?

That time was years and years ago. If you're just thinking about it now, you're already in a world of pain.

Intel stock is up 37% from 5 years ago. Though this past year they took quite a beating.

Re: Nvidia Grace CPU

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Post by azzentys » Tue, Mar 22, 2022, 9:02 PM UTC

my123 wrote: post #44

DeepYogurt wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nvidia's been making their own CPUs for a long time now. IIRC the first tegra was used in the Zune HD back in 2009. Hell they've even tried their hand at their own cpu core designs too. https://www.anandtech.com/show/7621/nvidia-reveals-first-det... https://www.anandtech.com/show/7622/nvidia-tegra-k1/2

Tegra X2 and Xavier are still sold today and contain NVIDIA-designed CPU cores. The team behind those is building new designs too, I wonder when they’re going to announce something.

Orin

Re: Nvidia Grace CPU

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Post by jlokier » Tue, Mar 22, 2022, 9:03 PM UTC

20220322-beans wrote: post #53

What are people's experience of developing with NVIDIA? I know what Linus thinks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYWzMvlj2RQ

I had a laptop with NVIDIA GPU that crashed Xorg and had to be rebooted whenever Firefox opened WebGL. Just to complement the positive sibling comments :-)

Re: Nvidia Grace CPU

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Post by wmf » Tue, Mar 22, 2022, 9:06 PM UTC

didip wrote: post #41

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

There are some hints that they are redesigning some server processors to double core count but that may not be visible for 2-3 years. Also keep in mind that Intel has 75% server market share and is only losing ~5 points per year.

Re: Nvidia Grace CPU

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Post by nlh » Tue, Mar 22, 2022, 9:06 PM UTC

bitwize wrote: post #3

luxuryballs wrote: post #2

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

IKR? Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these...

Slashdot flashbacks from 2001! Well played. Well played.

Re: Nvidia Grace CPU

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Post by sedatk » Tue, Mar 22, 2022, 9:06 PM UTC

donatj wrote: post #56

Maybe it's just me, but it's just cool to see the CPU market competitive again for the first time since the late 90s.

You're not alone.

Re: Nvidia Grace CPU

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Post by freemint » Tue, Mar 22, 2022, 9:06 PM UTC

valine wrote: post #30

IshKebab wrote: post #25

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Probably on the order of $100k.

That would be a real shame. I really want someone to make a high core count ARM processor in the price range of an AMD threadripper that can work with Nvidia gpus.

Look into Ampere they have 256 core and 160 core dual socket systems for decent prices https://store.avantek.co.uk/ampere.html .

Re: Nvidia Grace CPU

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Post by hughrr » Tue, Mar 22, 2022, 9:07 PM UTC

didip wrote: post #41

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

No. Intel worked out it needs to open its production capacity to other vendors. They will end up another ARM fab with a legacy x86-64 business strapped on the side. That's probably not a bad place to be really. I think x86-64 will fizzle out in about a decade.