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Re:Vortex: OpenCL Compatible RISC-V GPGPU by MeteOzturk on Thursday March 05, 2020 @09:28PM (#22500525)
What Nvidia brings to the table with both the Jetson line and the Tegra line is precisely those GPGPU's. The ARM parts are pretty standard I believe. What I meant was if there was enough interest and development around an open-source architecture for GPGPU's and Neural processing it would have the potential to become a competitor to Nvidia's offering. I am confident it would take years to become a worthy competitor in the desktop and server markets. Edge and portable devices I am not so sure.
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Re:Vortex: OpenCL Compatible RISC-V GPGPU by microcolonel on Thursday March 05, 2020 @10:00PM (#22500658)
> The ARM parts are pretty standard I believe.

Not sure exactly what you're saying here, but NVIDIA's cores are bottom-up custom, and they are very unusual.

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Re:Vortex: OpenCL Compatible RISC-V GPGPU by conradev on Friday March 06, 2020 @12:20AM (#22501173)
The older Jetson units featured standard Cortex-A57 processors and the newer units have their custom processors (Denver and Carmel architectures)
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