Orins are fine. If your use-case is robotics and edge compute, your alternative is exclusively worse ARM boards or x86 boards. Strictly speaking, it is the "piz

Orins are fine. If your use-case is robotics and edge compute, your alternative is exclusively worse ARM boards or x86 boards. Strictly speaking, it is the "pizzabox computer" disrupting everyone else's acceleration racket. And my point isn't that I resent people insulting Nvidia; I think the world would be a better place if CUDA didn't exist. But there literally are not HPC alternatives that exist in the mainstream today. Seriously, what are you suggesting? 20,000w Beowulf clusters that accelerate everything on 10-year-old Xeons? A few thousand Macs running GPU-shader accelerated int8 inference? These solutions just aren't out there, and it's why Nvidia owns the industry right now. The sheer incompetence of every other commercial hardware vendor has cemented their dominance for the foreseeable future. The industry would rather watch each other die fighting Nvidia than work together to stand a solitary chance.