Comment on Reuters: Nvidia to make Arm-based PC chips in major new challenge to Intel

simple@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• greybeard@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  NVIDIA wasn’t shy about this. They tried to buy ARM. They design the Tegra chip that is in the Switch.

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  • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And the Switch is basically just a rebranded (… with shittier plastic) Nvidia Shield X1 or whatever the number was.

    Jensen et al have very openly been making inroads with ARM devices for the better part of a decade at this point.

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    • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I had a tablet once, with an nVidia Tegra SOC. Once they were the fastest Arm chips around.

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      • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yeah. I was actually really looking forward to the Shield X1 (or whatever it was) until it fell off the face of the earth for a few months and suddenly whatever the switch’s codename was had the exact same specs. Just a worse display, cheaper feeling plastic, and controller holders that break if you use them too much.

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  • simple@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They tried to buy ARM.

    Just for market dominance I assume.

    They design the Tegra chip that is in the Switch.

    Yes, but that chip is old. It was already a bit outdated when the switch came out, and that was 2017.

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    • greybeard@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Just for market dominance I assume.

      Almost certainly. I’m glad they failed to buy it. It would have been a mess in the long run, but clearly they have plans for ARM.

      Yes, but that chip is old. It was already a bit outdated when the switch came out, and that was 2017.

      Correct, but they do work with ARM already. I’m guessing they will be making the chip for the Switch 2, which will probably be out of date when it comes out in 2024, but it will be a more modern chip.

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      • hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Nvidia’s ARM play has always been primarily in AI and vehicles. Tegra has a number of successors — just not in consumer devices.

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• misk@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  AMD is developing ARM CPUs too according to the same article but less details are available.

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  • aniki@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • misk@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oh, that would be nice. Just imagine the power of something like Apple M1 combined with ATI Radeon X1950 with that sweet Shader Model 3.0 support ;)

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• frezik@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  AMD will likely jump on ARM, too. They’re somewhat tied to the Intel architecture–x86-64 is their baby–but not as much as Intel themselves.

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• 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why arm instead of risc-v though?

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  • realharo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Because Windows on ARM is already a thing with some momentum.

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  • electromage@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Not nearly as mature, but I’d be shocked if they’re not working on it. It doesn’t make sense to talk about it at this time, still lots of buzz around ARM.

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• IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Aren’t these for servers?

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  • frezik@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Microsoft wants other ARM laptop options for Windows than just Qualcomm.

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    • ozymandias117@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The primary reason the company I work for is using a QC chip over any other ARM offering is the GPU they bought from ATI. The CPU cores aren’t particularly interesting

      If AMD or nVidia release a SoC, it would likely be a strong contender for our next design

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