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.
I wonder why Intel never had a really good go at GPU's? It seems strange, given the demand.
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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.
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
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#74Maybe it's just me, but it's just cool to see the CPU market competitive again for the first time since the late 90s.
I wonder why Intel never had a really good go at GPU's? It seems strange, given the demand.
Intel also announced a new GPU offering, supposed to drop in 8 days:
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-tec...
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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.
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Orin uses the Cortex-A78AE core for the CPU complex instead of NVIDIA-designed cores.
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#76This leads me to wonder about the microprocessor shortage.
So many computing devices such as Nvidia Jetson and Raspberry Pi are simply not available anywhere. I wonder what's he point of bringing out new products when existing products can't be purchased? Won't the new products also simply not be available?
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"PS2? That can't possibly be right..." https://www.vgchartz.com/analysis/platform_totals/ Holay molay.
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.
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#78Maybe it's just me, but it's just cool to see the CPU market competitive again for the first time since the late 90s.
I wonder why Intel never had a really good go at GPU's? It seems strange, given the demand.
Discrete GPUs have historically been a relatively small and volatile niche compared to CPUs, it's only in the last few years that the market has seen extreme growth.
edit: the market pretty much went from gaming as the primary pillar to gaming + HPC, which makes it far more attractive since you'd expect it to be much less cyclical and less price sensitive. Raja Koduri was hired in late 2017 to work on GPU related stuff, and it seems like the first major products from that effort will be coming out this year. That said, they've obviously had a lot of failures in the acelerator and graphics area (consider Altera) and Koduri has stated on Twitter that Gelsinger is the first CEO to actually treat graphics/HPC as a priority.
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#80This leads me to wonder about the microprocessor shortage. So many computing devices such as Nvidia Jetson and Raspberry Pi are simply not available anywhere. I wonder what's he point of bringing out new products when existing products can't be purchased? Won't the new products also simply not be available?
What? They are sold out, not "can't be purchased".