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That has to be the shot, right? Why else would they have bought ARM? Imagine this: stick an M1-like CPU and GPU combo on a PCIe card. Run the games entirely on
by core-questions 6y ago
That has to be the shot, right? Why else would they have bought ARM?
Imagine this: stick an M1-like CPU and GPU combo on a PCIe card. Run the games entirely on the card, using the host system as merely a way to provide data to the card. In one shot, you murder the AMD and Intel processor market - everyone can just buy the cheapest model and still play games, saving their money for the unified GPU/CPU board. It also paves the way for eGPU products for laptops becoming more mainstream, and could work towards a play for the Shield to become a console competitor (if cannibalizing their existing console business is worth it to them).
- N1H1L 6y agoYeah - seeing the ascendance of ARM in recent years Nvidia entering the processor market seems a very logical step. In fact Jensen Huang himself hasn't ruled out the possibility. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/jensen-huang-hints-at-nvidia-branded-arm-cpus https://www.tomshardware.com/news/jensen-huang-hints-at-nvid...
- XMPPwocky 6y agoAren't you just suggesting "big Tegra"? If the host PC isn't providing anything but maybe storage and networking...why not just buy a console?
- mr_toad 6y agoA console with upgradable CPU/GPU.
- XMPPwocky 6y agoSo they'd have to be socketed? That means no HBM, which seems unfortunate. (If you mean just replacing the entire card... why not replace the entire console? All you'd be getting from the host system would be power (probably as 12V, so you need several DC/DC converters on the card), storage, and networking - besides storage, all of these are commodities; and for storage, existing consoles already support swapping drives out just fine.)