Re:Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for m...
by modeless on Friday July 31, 2020 @04:03PM
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Apple didn't part ways with Intel and IBM because they were difficult to work with. They parted ways because Intel and IBM fell behind in performance. Nvidia has certainly not, and Apple has paid a price with worse graphics and machine learning support on Macs since their split. It's clearly different.
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Re:Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for m...
by JiNCMG on Friday July 31, 2020 @11:08PM
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Correct, IBM didn't care to make a power efficient processor and Motorola didn't see the benefit in Multimedia extension in their processor because they needed them for their network devices.
Nvidia introduced a set of laptop GPUs that had a high rate of failure. Instead of working with and eating some of the cost of repairing these laptops they told their customers to deal with it. Apple being one of their customers got upset and left holding the bag of shit and hasn't worked with them since.
Intel and AMD have used their x86/AMD64 patents to block Nvidia from entering the x86 CPU market.
Nvidia purchasing ARM will hurt not the large ARM licensees like Apple and Samsung but the ones that need to use the CPU in a device that does not need any of the Multimedia extensions that NVidia will be pushing.
Re:Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for m...
by GekkePrutser on Friday July 31, 2020 @10:18PM
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With intel it's a bit more complicated than that. I think running Macs on their own processors is a bit cost saver for them, and allows more control. And intel's CPU shortages have hurt their shipping schedules. I don't think this transition is about CPU performance.
But yeah I don't think it's about collaboration either.