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Nvidia is building ARM supercomputers. The only other company that has shown interest in ARM supercomputer chips is Fujitsu. The ARM ISA has mostly been left to
by Dracophoenix 5y ago
Nvidia is building ARM supercomputers. The only other company that has shown interest in ARM supercomputer chips is Fujitsu. The ARM ISA has mostly been left to mobile chips, low-powered computer kits, and experimental desktop computing (StrongARM,XScale, etc.) decades since its inception. If ARM, inc. or Softbank were interested in high-powered chips, either of these companies would have done it by now. But they haven't. Nvidia is the kick in the rear needed to push the ARM instruction set further.
- klelatti 5y agoAWS Graviton and Ampere are both based on Arm Neoverse designs. Plus Apple M1. Arm ISA does not need Nvidia for a ‘kick in the rear’.
- Dracophoenix 5y agoAll very recent developments, but they all have limitations. Graviton is meant for data centers, Ampere is a GPU solution. M1's top configuration, while impressive in the prosumer space, is barely past the teraflop barrier. I doubt Apple and Amazon have any plans to build HPCs.
- klelatti 5y agoIf only HPC counts as powerful then you’ve already quoted that Nvidia and Fujitsu are using Arm under the existing ownership structure. > If ARM, inc. or Softbank were interested in high-powered chips, either of these companies would have done it by now. But they haven't. Just factually incorrect given what is happening at the moment with Neoverse. (And Ampere Computing not the Nvidia GPU design)