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I talked with you on several different platforms over years and I'm also a bit of open source zealot. But the deal is: reason why Nvidia able to keep their lock
by SXX 6y ago
I talked with you on several different platforms over years and I'm also a bit of open source zealot. But the deal is: reason why Nvidia able to keep their lock-in going for decades is because they actually do invest a lot into R&D and take risks.
There simply very few companies that doing it. Big reason why Intel and AMD have their open source teams is because that's give them edge against Nvidia. All we see from Nvidia competitors is just reimplementation of the same tech Nvidia already had, but once AMD have some good tech they keep it proprietary too.
ARM space is already locked-in and fully-proprietary company (Apple) have leadership. I don't see how Nvidia getting into competition can make it any worse.
- shmerl 6y agoARM chips are used even by someone like AMD. Point is, Nvidia can't be trusted not to use that anti-competitively, given their existing reputation and amount of leverage they would get on even more things. So if competition laws would have worked as intended, Nvidia wouldn't have been allowed to buy ARM.