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NVIDIA continues to vertically integrate their datacenter offerings. They bought mellanox to get infiniband. They tried to buy ARM - that didn't work. But th
by oofbey 5y ago
NVIDIA continues to vertically integrate their datacenter offerings. They bought mellanox to get infiniband. They tried to buy ARM - that didn't work. But they're building & bundling CPUs anyway. I guess when you're so far ahead on the compute side, it's all the peripherals that hold you back, so they're putting together a complete solution.
- DeepYogurt 5y agoNvidia's been making their own CPUs for a long time now. IIRC the first tegra was used in the Zune HD back in 2009. Hell they've even tried their hand at their own cpu core designs too. https://www.anandtech.com/show/7621/nvidia-reveals-first-details-about-project-denver-cpu-core https://www.anandtech.com/show/7621/nvidia-reveals-first-det... https://www.anandtech.com/show/7622/nvidia-tegra-k1/2 https://www.anandtech.com/show/7622/nvidia-tegra-k1/2
- 015a 5y agoMaybe even more importantly: Tegra powers the Nintendo Switch.
- ggreg84 5y agoWhich is (EDIT: NOT) the most widely sold console ever.
- fazzyfoo 5y agoNot by a long shot. PS2 and DS outsell by about 50 million units.
- shawnthye 5y ago
- nickelcitymario 5y ago"PS2? That can't possibly be right..." https://www.vgchartz.com/analysis/platform_totals/ https://www.vgchartz.com/analysis/platform_totals/ Holay molay.
- overtonwhy 5y agoIt was the most affordable DVD player. I think Sony owned patents on some DVD player tech? Same with PS4/5 and Blu Ray if I'm remembering correctly
- 015a 5y agoThis was also kind of the case with the PS3. Its sales weren't fantastic at release, partially because of its... $600 (?) price tag. But even at that price, at its release, it was one of the cheapest ways to get a Blu-ray player, and many people bought it for that.
- genewitch 5y agoNot just a Blu-ray player, but one that is guaranteed to be able to play practically all blu-ray discs as long as Blu ray discs are made or the console hardware fails. Sony pushed updates to the firmware. Most commodity Blu ray players don't have an (easy) way to update.
- Forgeties79 5y agoIf memory serves, there was less than 1 game per PS3 sold at launch.
- to11mtm 5y ago"Five Hundred Ninety Nine US Dollars!" But for both the PS2 and PS3, Getting folks to adopt the new formats was definitely a factor. In the case of the PS2, I think less so; It wasn't the cheapest way to get a DVD player, but IIRC it wasn't that much more than a DVD Player with Component out at the time (note; All PS2s can do Component out, but only later models can play DVDs at 480p) and that made it a lot easier for families to buy-in.
- ggreg84 5y agoIndeed, wow.
- TazeTSchnitzel 5y agoNote the CPU cores in that design aren't designed by NVidia.
- my123 5y agoTegra X2 and Xavier are still sold today and contain NVIDIA-designed CPU cores. The team behind those is building new designs too, I wonder when they’re going to announce something.