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

• Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨8⁩ ⁨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.

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    • greybeard@lemmy.one ⁨8⁩ ⁨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.

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    • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨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.

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      • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        For me it was more that I wanted an android tablet and that was pretty much the only good option. been a minute, but I want to say the Samsungs were still insanely expensive and the kindle fires were already a hot mess.

        These days, Samsung actually have lower tier tablets that go on sale often enough that you can SORT of justify an android tablet. But it is still a god damned mess.

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