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by DCKing 6y ago
Indeed. IBM could have done a lot more for Power than they are, but they don't understand how. They only understand how to make overpriced hardware for the enterprise. They don't understand how to build a grassroots developer comm
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by DCKing 6y ago
My impression was that Sunny/Willow Cove was still an iteration on Skylake, just a larger one than all the other Lakes Intel had to come up with in the past years. Perhaps I'm just confused since all the architecture writeups comp
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by DCKing 6y ago
This is a really important result for Intel, as they might continue to keep on being competitive for certain workloads. Intel managing to eek out some more life out of the one thing they still had (and were about to lose): single thread per
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by DCKing 6y ago
> Nvidia is notoriously hostile to open source. I've been very critical of Nvidia and this acquisition, but I don't think this is accurate. Nvidia as a company shows a lot of evidence of a company that does not deal well with c
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by DCKing 6y ago
The DSi is great too of course, but if the scaling of DS games is a problem for you on a 3DS you can display the games unscaled/letterboxed by launching the game (or TwilightMenu) while holding Select or Start. I too much prefer displa
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by DCKing 6y ago
The 3DS, in particular the "New" models, I think are really recommended to pick up cheap. They are well built devices that are supremely hackable with access to lots of fun games. The 3DS library is good despite somewhat lacking i
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by DCKing 6y ago
> (and incidentally why couldn't they do that anyway?) Why try to compete on merit when you can swoop in and dictate the market to do your bidding? Coming at it from this perspective, it's looking like almost the same old Nvidi
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by DCKing 6y ago
A comment yesterday in the other thread mentions that ARM currently sells their ARM CPU plus Mali GPU IP in a single package. Buying the IP together is much cheaper than buying just the CPU IP. This is why nearly every ARM CPU maker uses th
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by DCKing 6y ago
Huang's first reason why they would take up ARM is really, really interesting (and serves as a big counterpoint for my pessimistic take on the announcement yesterday). > Number one is this: as you know, we would love to take Nvidia’
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by DCKing 6y ago
I agree actually that Nvidia's strategic motivation here is their long-term position w.r.t. Intel and AMD, maybe even Apple/Huawei/Samsung. And that's actually a good reason for this investment! I likewise don't thi
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by DCKing 6y ago
Ah that's very interesting. I wonder what kind of circumstance would get in the way deals for a GPU line that (starting with Maxwell) is technically the best GPU architecture money can buy. Perhaps Nvidia were trying to win game consol
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by DCKing 6y ago
> Nvidia is a total powerhouse when it comes to chip design. Most people here are looking at this from the angle of "how does ARM benefit Nvidia", but I think its more valuable to consider "how does Nvidia benefit ARM&quot
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by DCKing 6y ago
All I can say to that is that I don't share your optimism. Explaining this as an acquihire sounds nice, but that seems a thin explanation of this purchase given the key role ARM has for many of Nvidia's competitors and the ludicro
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by DCKing 6y ago
Nvidia will certainly try to get as much money out of ARM's R&D capabilities, existing IP, and future roadmap as they can. They will get their money's worth - at worst they will fail trying. In that sense, they won't des
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by DCKing 6y ago
I wouldn't use the term "unfair" here. There's also just three x86 licensees in the world and people don't usually consider that an affront. You buy, you control, that's how the world works. But I do think it&#
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by DCKing 6y ago
It could be Nvidia just wants ARM's profits and leave them alone, but I don't understand why Nvidia would spend 40 billion dollars on that. They spend 40 billion on the control of a company, why would they do that if they just wou
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by DCKing 6y ago
I'm sure that ARM is not a saint here in the sense that they would also have an incentive to milk their licensees as much as possible. Now they will keep having that incentive, but also the terrible incentive to actively outcompete the
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by DCKing 6y ago
This is terrible. Not really just because of Nvidia - which has a lot of problems I've previously commented on the rumors of this [1] - but Nvidia's ownership completely changes ARM's incentives. ARM created a business model
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by DCKing 6y ago
Yeah this is going to be very hard to accomplish unfortunately. I'm guessing the only possible option to do this over the internet at the moment is using Dolphin and VBA-M on the same machine and some complex streaming setup. Dolphin s
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by DCKing 6y ago
Just be aware that it sometimes requires some per game tinkering with the four different GBARunner "flavors" to get things to work, and some games have annoying problems regardless of the flavor you pick. Overall it works well eno
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by DCKing 6y ago
Nintendo has been state of the art with the Nintendo 64 and GameCube and probably the Game Boy Advance in the same era. It was an era where - with clever engineering - you could be on the cutting edge and still sell your consoles for cheap.
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by DCKing 6y ago
> I have always wondered if it's possible to run Gameboy Advance games in DS Mode (and thus access the DS mode hardware) It is! GBARunner2 is a DS homebrew hypervisor that can run (a lot of) GBA games in DS mode [1]. It can e.g. be
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by DCKing 6y ago
Because they've just announced the next entry into a series of processors that by all accounts can take the fight to Intel and AMD's best (and has done so for some time), which requires huge investments and long term planning, ro
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by DCKing 6y ago
I understand that is how IBM thinks. I just don't like that they only think this way, as it feels like spoilt potential. IBM has all the pieces in place - they have great technology with high performance, ppc64le actually has pretty
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by DCKing 6y ago
> To be fair, POWER is an open standard, and there's absolutely nothing stopping someone like Linode, DigitalOcean, or Hetzner from offering POWER-based systems at a smaller hourly price. Well besides the fact that 1) IBM is the on
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by DCKing 6y ago
It's really cool they're making this, I should give this a try. This does look like it's the most accessible way of getting a POWER-based shell. This service's interface does not start out with making a great first impre
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by DCKing 6y ago
Of course I'm not. My entire point is that filtering out average Janes like me is antithetical to the long-term interests of POWER, and extremely weird for a cloud platform that allows you to spin up an amd64 VM in a few seconds for
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by DCKing 6y ago
I just don't understand how IBM - being acutely aware of what happened to Itanium and SPARC + running a cloud platform themselves - still believes this notion of "enterprise hardware" is the way of the future. Surely IBM wa
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by DCKing 6y ago
Ah this seems to be new, thanks! That's exactly the kind of response I hoped I would get. Unfortunately completing this flow - with the goal to get a temporary shell on a Power system running some Linux distro - requires me to authori
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by DCKing 6y ago
> It’s very cool, but unfortunately inaccessible for those without sky high budgets and time to talk to sales reps. I've spent some time looking to see if it would be possible to spin up a POWER based VM in the cloud (just out of c

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