Nvidia CEO says Google is the only customer building its own silicon at scale

Re:Nvidia CEO says Google is the only customer building its ... by shmerl on Friday August 16, 2019 @06:34PM (#20720358)

Hopefully higher competitive pressure on Nvidia including from Intel joining high end GPU market, will finally push Nvidia to upstream their Linux driver or at the very least to unblock Nouveau, to use GPU reclocking properly.

Google mentioned open source drivers as one of the reasons for picking AMD GPUs for Stadia.

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Re:Nvidia CEO says Google is the only customer building its ... by sipherhex on Saturday August 17, 2019 @05:00PM (#20726342)

There are many good reasons to embrace better integration with open source. I think the benefits like helping users with custom/broad distro needs and increasing the velocity of collaboration with the ecosystem and partners outweighs factors like 'competition.'

The cogs do turn, albeit slower than people prefer.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-O...

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Re:Nvidia CEO says Google is the only customer building its ... by techntoke on Friday August 16, 2019 @10:56PM (#20721686)

Stadia is going to be huge for open source. I just hope both AMD and NVIDIA will provide a virtual GPU driver like Intel offers for it's embedded graphics. That might actually be the end of Window's dominance.

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