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Yes, but not the high-end GPU market, which is what Intel has been trying to break into for quite some time now.
by Alupis 6y ago
Yes, but not the high-end GPU market, which is what Intel has been trying to break into for quite some time now.
- phkahler 6y agoARM is not in the high end GPU market either.
- parsimo2010 6y agoNo, but Nvidia is. So if Nvidia bought ARM, they could be a CPU and GPU maker.
- zymhan 6y agoNvidia has had modern ARM chips (the Tegra series among other) for at least a decade now. Any company can license ARM tech.
- parsimo2010 6y agoThe top level comment was about companies owning a CPU and GPU stack. NVIDIA licenses ARM IP now, if they bought ARM they would actually own the designs, putting them on the level of AMD and Intel where they would have greater control over the technology. Just licensing the designs puts a company on a lower chipmaking tier with Qualcomm, Samsung, Apple, Huawei, etc.
- tambre 6y ago> NVIDIA licenses ARM IP now, if they bought ARM they would actually own the designs NVIDIA Carmel is NVIDIA's own Arm v8.2-A design [0]. They only licence the architecture. The core is quite interesting, as it's doing dynamic recompilation for an underlying VLIW architecture. However, NVIDIA Orin[1] (followup for Tegra Xavier) will use a Cortex-A78 core[2] (formerly Hercules) licenced from ARM. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Denver https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Denver [1] https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-introduces-drive-agx-orin-advanced-software-defined-platform-for-autonomous-machines#:~:text=NVIDIA%20today%20introduced%20NVIDIA%20DRIVE,four%20years%20of%20R%26D%20investment https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-introduces-drive-a.... [2] https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/arm_holdings/microarchitectures/cortex-a78 https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/arm_holdings/microarchitectures...
- mc32 6y agoHeh... ever since the days of the chips and technology acquisition, if not sooner, they vacillate between wanting to be in the graphics business and not being in the graphics business...
- fiddlerwoaroof 6y agoMy impression was they were intentionally not competing with Nvidia at one point?
- csharptwdec19 6y agoFrom the outside it sounds more like Intel has been infighting about this for 20+ years... The original i740 was theoretically a capable card; although fairly hampered by being forced to use Main Memory for Textures. Intel eventually backed down from the graphics market back then, and instead continued to use the 740 as a basis for the integrated graphics in the i810/815 chipsets. But, as GPUs became closer to what we saw as real GPUs, Intel continued to press on with the idea that keeping things done in the CPU was better for them (i.e. encouraging upgrades to higher end CPUs vs selling more lower margin graphics cards.) You saw a similar pattern with the 845/855/865: Shaders were all done in software (Hey, it finally almost justified Netburst, right? ;) And this pattern seems to continue with various forms of infighting between groups up to this day. The other Consistent problem they have had is driver compatibility/capability.
- Zardoz84 6y agoAlso, the i740 drivers were really bad. I had one and I remember all kind of bug and graphical glitchs on games that worked fine on a GeFoce 2 MX that I got latter.