It is sad news. The more a few hands have in is bad for the people. Can't they just collaborate ?
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NVIDIA Reportedly Near Deal To Buy Arm For $40+ Billion Dollars
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Originally posted by tildearrow View PostThen they turn consumer ARM into a closed-source design with encrypted firmware and zero open drivers.
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Goodbye, ARM. After all, x86 will stay forever.
ARM isn't very OSS friendly, with these closed source drivers everywhere. It seems a perfect match for Nvidia, as they are closed source zealots.
I think Nvidia will obsessively try to control ARM platform as much as possible, as they are control freaks in a pathological way. They'll try to break the ARM perpetual license by using the best lawyers from hell and other obscure realms, then make anything to get more cash flow.
ARM fragmentation will become even worse, a lot worse.
Linaro is a bad joke, I agree too.
Good news for RISC-V and AMD
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Originally posted by DL9220 View PostSomeone remembers 3dfx ? December 2000, they became NVidia, januari 2001 they cut supporting their Voodoo's and nVidia had all of sudden a 3D capable chip..
GeForce 256 launched in 1999, 2 in 2000 and 3 in 2001. I'd say that the FX series was the first that could've realistically used some 3dfx tech, and it wasn't very good.
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Originally posted by superstructor View PostAs an owner/developer of a range of NVIDIA Jetson TX2 and Xavier devices I really don't see what all the angst is about.
NVIDIA already does an outstanding job with their Arm64 SOCs on those platforms incl fully open source board support packages based on Ubuntu.
For any serious engineers with skin in the game this is nothing but good news. I guess the script kiddies who have probably never touched an Arm compiler gotta hate.
If you want an arm SOC, it should be either really cheap so that community supports it OR you pay big bugs so that a company supports it really well and gets all the things mainline. And you want full mainline support since SOCs are used for a long time. I don't see where Nvidia fits in. Neither cheap, nor bringing things mainline.
Do they support CUDA with the free Tegra drivers?Last edited by oleid; 13 September 2020, 02:17 AM.
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