Nvidia to Acquire Mellanox for $6.9B
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Nvidia to Acquire Mellanox for $6.9B
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Re: Nvidia to Acquire Mellanox for $6.9B
#2How bad is it that Intel didn't win?
Re: Nvidia to Acquire Mellanox for $6.9B
#3I only know of Mellanox for their 10 gigabit ethernet cards. Does anybody know if this is a good or bad thing for Mellanox?
Re: Nvidia to Acquire Mellanox for $6.9B
#4I only know of Mellanox for their 10 gigabit ethernet cards. Does anybody know if this is a good or bad thing for Mellanox?
Plumpy "enterprise" customers.
They still are the company to go for infiniband, but infiniband it lost much of its appeal to non true supercomputing tasks.
Ethernet nowadays can do RDMA, soft guarantees on latency, in-order and reliable delivery at lower costs, and an option to reuse existing L2 networks. Mellanix has squeezed the infiniband cow dry.
Re: Nvidia to Acquire Mellanox for $6.9B
#5How bad is it that Intel didn't win?
It is remarkable they were outbid.
This acquisition has big implications for HPC in particular.
Re: Nvidia to Acquire Mellanox for $6.9B
#6How bad is it that Intel didn't win?
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Re: Nvidia to Acquire Mellanox for $6.9B
#7I only know of Mellanox for their 10 gigabit ethernet cards. Does anybody know if this is a good or bad thing for Mellanox?
One out of only 2 vendors for InfiniBand which is quite important for HPC especially in the Top 500.
They also have some sort of a parallel VLIW CPU architecture that they've been trying to get off the ground for a while now called TILE/TILE64 so that might also play into things.
However since NVIDIA opened their offices in Israel a while ago they might simply be looking for an acquihire since Mellanox is a fabless semi chip maker it kinda fits that also.
Re: Nvidia to Acquire Mellanox for $6.9B
#8Interesting fact, Mellanox is an employer of Palestinian programmers in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Sort of a mixed blessing, cheap labor without other options because of the occupation, but real opportunities and a more educated and well off population will be more effective at advocating for its rights:
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/business/palestinian-hig...
Re: Nvidia to Acquire Mellanox for $6.9B
#9I only know of Mellanox for their 10 gigabit ethernet cards. Does anybody know if this is a good or bad thing for Mellanox?
The 10g NICs are toys. ;-) Mellanox provides high speed (40/56/100/200 gigabit) switches and adapters. If you think 10g fiber is big, just wait...
I’ve worked on several projects with them, and found they generally do a good job of feeding the beast when the OS and driver’s are properly tuned.
I’m not informed enough to call good or bad, but will instead say it’s interesting, especially in the HPC space (and the emerging AI space).
Re: Nvidia to Acquire Mellanox for $6.9B
#10How bad is it that Intel didn't win?
If Intel had one, they would have further consolidated their hold on the HPC/Supercomputer market. Summit is an interesting supercomputer because it's NVidia/Mellanox/IBM instead of the Intel hegemony that Cori II was, iirc the interconnect for Cori was from Cray.
Now NVidia only needs to buy Xilinx...