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Re:Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for m... by fluffything on Friday July 31, 2020 @02:54PM (#24012381)
It's a tough spot to be in. AMD and Intel split the largest chunk of the cake because their products are cheap, so they make money in volume.

The only reason nvidia has 20% of the GPU market at all is because their products are better, but without volume, there is very little separating you from losing the market.

If NVIDIA slips over AMD and Intel perf wise during one generation, the competition will have cheaper and better products, so it's pretty much game over.

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Re:Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for m... by Dahoon on Friday July 31, 2020 @03:51PM (#24013125)
>If NVIDIA slips over AMD and Intel perf wise during one generation

It has happened many times.

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Re:Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for m... by fluffything on Saturday August 01, 2020 @01:46PM (#24022425)
In both graphics and compute ?

Its ok for nvidia to release an architecture that does compute very well, but barely improves graphics, and vice-versa.

But I don't recall any compute generation where there was a better product from the competition.

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