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And despite that, Tegra isn’t all that great compared to Qualcomm and Apple. Why can’t NVIDIA make their own M1 competitor as it is right now?
by DaiPlusPlus 6y ago
And despite that, Tegra isn’t all that great compared to Qualcomm and Apple.
Why can’t NVIDIA make their own M1 competitor as it is right now?
- abainbridge 6y agoBecause that requires investment. If they make that investment and are wildly successful at taking market share from x86 then ARM will become a much more valuable company. Buying ARM allows Nvidia to capture that value. This is a real problem when some of that investment is porting/tuning various open source projects to make them run well on ARM. Such work would benefit the whole ARM ecosystem, including competitors who sell ARM based chips. At which point, owning ARM starts to look sensible.
- ksec 6y agoHaving an ARM license has zero relationship with performance. An ARM license is only for unit cost benefits. Nothing else.
- sam_bristow 6y agoAlso strategic reasons. If you own ARM you can dictate the direction they're focussing on a lot more.
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- vondur 6y agoThe Tegra's aren't that bad are they? The CPU in the Xavier seems pretty decent, and it's only on a 12nm process. If they can get that shrunk down, it'd probably run even better.