Re:FTC sues to block Nvidia-Arm merger
by GhettoComputers on Thursday December 02, 2021 @07:11PM
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Intel and AMD already have a monopoly on x86-x64, and both make GPUs and CPUs. Nvidia only makes GPUs.
Re:FTC sues to block Nvidia-Arm merger
by Tostino on Thursday December 02, 2021 @09:36PM
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They were terrible at the CPU game with their Tegra line. Not sure if that's still going on.
I'd rather Nvidia be kept away from Arm at all costs.
Or, they realized they're terrible and instead of trying to be terrible again they're trying to be not terrible this time by acquiring people that actually know what they're doing? A good ARM Tegra sounds like a product that would benefit the market and thus consumers.
Re:FTC sues to block Nvidia-Arm merger
by Grazester on Friday December 03, 2021 @07:58AM
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Terrible enough to power one of the best selling consoles of all time despite its shortcomings.
Nvidia's Jetson series computers and their various SOCs (as seen in the Nintendo Switch (Nvidia Tegra), Tesla's cars, etc) are not just GPUs.
It is not possible for 2 competing companies to have a monopoly. Perhaps you suspect some sort of collusion between them? Seems unlikely given the kicking Intel have had the past few years.
Re:FTC sues to block Nvidia-Arm merger
by GhettoComputers on Friday December 03, 2021 @04:46AM
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AMD has barely beaten Intel’s Sandy bridge, finally. Not enough for me to buy one.
They don’t need to collude, they’ll “compete” by siting on their ass like Intel did, barely being better yet jacking up the price, only “Haswell” is renamed “Zen 3”.
Wait a second, isn't Ryzen 5xxx much faster in single thread than Sandy Bridge ever was? Isn't the available number of cores greater as well?
Re:FTC sues to block Nvidia-Arm merger
by GhettoComputers on Friday December 03, 2021 @08:30PM
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Zen 2 beats it for price to performance, and much faster? It’s not even twice as fast. Nothing has doubled for close to a decade, and no difference in most real world usage.
NVIDIA, on the other hand, is suspicious. It is in their interest to use and manipulate ARM to release/restrict products in such a way that will strengthen their already strong market position with accelerators, and push down its competitors like AMD and Intel.