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Nvidia is gearing up to sell servers instead of just GPUs and components

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Re: Nvidia is gearing up to sell servers instead of just GPUs and components

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> vertically integrate Sounds like they are going the Apple way. How long until we have to pay 30% to get our apps in their AI-Store?

We already pay a 100% premium on AWS.

At least that premium is not directly proportional to our revenue.

Re: Nvidia is gearing up to sell servers instead of just GPUs and components

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Nvidia already sells servers? What I don't really get, is that Nvidia is worth like $4.5T on $130B revenue. If they want to sell servers, why don't they just buy Dell or HP? If they want CPUs want not buy AMD, Qualcomm, Broadcom or TI? (I know they got blocked on their ARM attempt before the AI boom) Their revenue is too low to support their value, shouldn't they use this massive value to just buy up companies to up…

Sometimes building a new organization is easier than trying to improve a legacy one.

Re: Nvidia is gearing up to sell servers instead of just GPUs and components

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Nvidia already sells servers? What I don't really get, is that Nvidia is worth like $4.5T on $130B revenue. If they want to sell servers, why don't they just buy Dell or HP? If they want CPUs want not buy AMD, Qualcomm, Broadcom or TI? (I know they got blocked on their ARM attempt before the AI boom) Their revenue is too low to support their value, shouldn't they use this massive value to just buy up companies to up…

But nVidia already sells servers (NVL72), and CPUs (Grace). Why buy a bunch of overlapping companies?

And no sane regulator on the planet will allow them to takeover AMD, Qualcomm, or Broadcom.

Re: Nvidia is gearing up to sell servers instead of just GPUs and components

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I talked to someone at Nvidia ~2019 or ~2020 and their plan at the time was to completely vertically integrate and sell compute as a service via their own managed data centers with their own software, drivers, firmware, and hardware so this seems like just another incremental step in that direction.

> vertically integrate Sounds like they are going the Apple way. How long until we have to pay 30% to get our apps in their AI-Store?

More like IBM

Re: Nvidia is gearing up to sell servers instead of just GPUs and components

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Can anyone comment on wafer-scale systems, multiple equivalent chips on an entire wafer? Seems like where things are heading?

Only Cerebras is doing wafer-scale. It seems to be working for them but no one is copying them. The minimum unit (one wafer) costs millions and it's not clear how good their multi-wafer scaling is.
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