well they start making decent drivers for linux or will they suck ass like they do now
Yeah, but, it’s Nvidia, the same company who’s a key figure on the AI-Govt circlejerk.
The absolute best thing we can do is boycott them AND OpenAI, because neither company gives a F about the People.
While Huang and Nvidia continue their current trajectory, I’ll never buy another Nvidia product.
Yeah, seriously. Nvidia is too busy fucking over the consumer PC market to be interested to produce a CPU that’d sell in that same market. My bet is that any CPU they release would be targeted at cloud/AI as well.
They should try entering the desktop GPU market.
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Can’t wait to install a 5GB driver bundle for my CPU that leaves shit all over the place. No thanks.
Yeah I think I’d rather stick a CPU up my ass then use a Nvidia CPU an any computer I own.
so… they have spare production capacity then?
I’m not buying this news, and if I’m wrong I’m not buying the product. Fuck Nvidia
Do I want another option in the desktop CPU space? YES
Do I want that option to be Nvidia? NOPE
I’m looking forward to the MilkV chipsets that are RISC V architecture. They have like a microATX board that just takes regular computer components and has functioning graphics drivers for AMD. Nothing is optimized for it but its a 64 core CPU if I recall correctly, and its ridiculously low wattage for what it does.
Ditto. RISCV will catch up, eventually, and it’ll be a Chinese company which does it. Most of þe RISCV solutions are Chinese silicon.
I’m likely never buying one, but more competition is good. It’ll bring prices down because some people won’t care.
What’s wrong with Nvidia? Genuine question
They are extremely hostile to open source.
they are recently destroying the desktop PC market by selling at overinflated prices, and by being the manufacturer that ends up using all the memory components that’s been removed from the manufacturers of the PC market.
but for a very long time before that, they were making very shitty, buggy, unstable drivers for linux. we might just get to be taught that CPUs also need drivers, so far that just wasn’t a problem because they was just working fine.
Nvidia is just the person selling pickaxes, blame the AI companies for paying insane amounts for memory
Probably them investing mostly in AI hardware nowadays (not sure what %) is the reason
If it ever becomes the standard desktop processor, they’ll pull the rug like they have with graphics processors and push everything to AI datacenters.
Hard pass
I will not buy another nvidia retail product again. Could make an exception for a second hand shield from an earlier generation, but nvidia is dead to me. AMD is my new best friend.
AMD is still trying to get in on the AI cash pile. The only thing they have going for them is pretty solid Linux support. I still pick them over nvidia and intel, they just aren’t much better than the others when it comes to “consumer first” ideologies
I’m a fickle mistress and sadly also a captured audience so totally expect to hate them one day… for now it plays mhwilds hi res on ultra great on garuda.
The tegra boards are good on Linux. They need to get this out so software developers can work out the software kinks and hardware integrators make some good designs. I want a whole lot more Steam Machine sized devices to choose from
No, they don’t. Fuck them and everything they stand fkr.
Big lol. I’ll believe it when I see benchmarks.
Good, I won’t be buying them either.
Are they hedging against AI collapsing? Not sure I see the motivation.
They’re doubling down. It’s a special CPU for more AI slop.
I think that’s 100% what this is, and it’s a very smart play if that’s the case. Intel are reeling from some significant setbacks, while Nvidia is swimming in cash. There’s never been a better time for them to make a play for the desktop CPU space.
And they’ve got absolutely no illusions about what’s happening with AI. They’re the ones who are literally paying AI companies to buy their chips. They know the space is collapsing. But as the guys selling the picks and shovels, they can ride out that collapse if they’re smart.
End of the day, if what we get out of this is a new, serious competitor in the CPU space, that’ll at least be some kind of win. With Nvidia’s money and expertise they could really force Intel to get their shit together. AMD chasing their heels is the only that’s ever kept them from completely going to shit, but more competition is even better. With all three major companies playing in both the CPU and GPU spaces, that could be really good for consumers.
It might also be groundwork for more complicated things on their GPUs.
The article says nothing about nVidia actually planning to enter the desktop CPU market, only that a bunch of unrelated analysts compared the CPU performance, and said it was about equal to what’s on the market.
Nvidia wants to be the equal to Intel and AMD. They want to be the 3rd major hardware house.
In ~2009, Intel didn’t renew a contract which allowed Nvidia to produce chipsets for Intel processors, and since then Nvidia has wanted a CPU of their own to keep from getting locked out again.
Nvidia tried to buy Arm when SoftBank was trying to sell, but that got scuttled. They had Tegra in the past which was a phone processor and successful in the Nintendo Switch. They can’t buy Intel because of poison pills in the x86 licensing between AMD and Intel which would kick in.
Both that and vertical integration. They can capture even more of the market by creating all in one Nvidia-only machines that you have to buy the whole rig to use their accelerators
Yeah, that was my question. Why the hell would they develop new silicon when 99% of their fab space is dedicated to feeding the AI bubble?
I don’t think I’ll ever purchase anything made by NVIDIA
I mean if it’s 2nd hand… and the free (libre) drivers are good… and AMD hasn’t gone full Intel… maybe??
