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 It was already a bit outdated when the switch came out, and that was 2017.
Comment on Reuters: Nvidia to make Arm-based PC chips in major new challenge to Intel
greybeard@lemmy.one 11 months agoNVIDIA wasn’t shy about this. They tried to buy ARM. They design the Tegra chip that is in the Switch.
simple@lemm.ee 11 months ago
greybeard@lemmy.one 11 months 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 It was already a bit outdated when the switch came out, and that was 2017.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 I’m guessing they will be making the chip for the Switch 2, which will probably be out of date when it comes out in 2024, but it will be a more modern chip.
hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
Nvidia’s ARM play has always been primarily in AI and vehicles. Tegra has a number of successors — just not in consumer devices.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 11 months 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.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I had a tablet once, with an nVidia Tegra SOC. Once they were the fastest Arm chips around.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 11 months 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.
greybeard@lemmy.one 11 months ago
I tend to fall on the AMD side of things on PC, but I’m glad to see things getting shook up on the ARM side. I’d love to see AMD and NVIDIA go ham on RISC-V, but that’s a much bigger risk right now, and probably needs another 10 years of refinement to hit the efficiency of ARM.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I must admit, I never understood the use case for Shield. All I heard about was something about game streaming, as in running games from servers. Not a use case I personally found interesting. Google tried that too, and failed badly.
The switch however had the huge benefit of Nintendo IP, and was a natural extension of previous Nintendo systems.
However, I can clearly understand your disappointment if you hoped for a more versatile system.