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From the original NCD X-terminal to the current Citrix-based smart terminals there's definitely something compelling about putting the compute elsewhere and dis
by technofiend 8y ago
From the original NCD X-terminal to the current Citrix-based smart terminals there's definitely something compelling about putting the compute elsewhere and displaying graphics locally. Nvidia have to be very worried about Google's Project Stream because of the cloud model: someone aggregating compute and render resources means net selling less than when each person has their own.
It also means far less opportunity to exfiltrate data. There would be no Snowden if he had a dumb terminal that refused to mount storage USB devices, for example. I'm kinda surprised the intelligence community didn't go all in on dumb displays for that reason alone.
- akhilcacharya 8y agoNvidia already has a product for game streaming that you can use today though!
- fyfy18 8y agoThat's going to happen to Nvidia anyway. They must be blind if they can't see that. Even today a very small percentage of gamers are using Nvidia chips, as most games are played on mobile. This is why desktop gaming hardware is getting more expensive every year, as it's becoming more and more of a niche market.
- chatmasta 8y agoNvidia was in the streaming game market before google got there. Their service, "GeForce Now," [0] is still in beta and allows playing games remotely. [0] https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/geforce/products/geforce-now/waitlist/ https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/geforce/products/geforce-now/wa...