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5g, wifi, bluetooth etc. what makes a mobile processor monile processor other than the CPU
by bgnn 2y ago
5g, wifi, bluetooth etc. what makes a mobile processor monile processor other than the CPU
- knowitnone 2y agoyeah, those are just modules that anybody can just buy. NVIDIA already makes jetsons which are basically SBCs with decent GPU. so again, what does Mediatek provide?
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- downrightmike 2y agoMonopoly accusation shield. "But we're sharing the tech!"
- touisteur 2y agoMaybe a sign of NVIDIA divesting low-margin SoCs or finding a way to be in nextgen phone chips ? (Edit:) solidifying the cuda moat in phone SoCs too ?
- bgnn 2y agolooking back at the news releases: Mediatek seems to bring CPU design expertise on the table, which makes sense, they have much more experience and know-how in this than Nvidia. Mediatek is a top tier company with excellent engineering talent. Ideally Nvidia would acquire such a company so that they can challenge AMD and Qualcomm better but this doesn't seem to fit for their strategy to keep it small and focused. Hemce such a partnership works better for them.
- jononor 2y agoWhat do you mean by modules, exactly? In a smartphone, which is the largest market, and where Mediatek is pretty strong, many of those functions are integrated as part of a system on chip. Power consumption also required good interplay between the various subsystems. So it's relatively tightly integrated. You also must have good Android drivers/BSP. And phone vendors are not that interested in changing vendors alle the time. There are also a bunch of patents that one must license, which Mediatek likely already does. Often cross licensing with what is typically competitors (like Qualcomm, maybe even Apple), which takes a bunch of time to set up.