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why are nvidia interested in arm anyway? afaik they don't have a magic gpu pill
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presumably nvidia wants to diversify out of just gpus
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Sep 14, 2020 08:46
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looking to ship rackmounted gpu compute without being reliant on others for hard-to-replace components and ip. also likely some play in mobile gpus/socs coming, possibly just to make cuda a default on that side too and get more of a moat. Cybernetic Vermin fucked around with this message at 08:52 on Sep 14, 2020 |
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Sep 14, 2020 08:49
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The Merkinman posted:They're going to replace Google with Bing?
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Sep 14, 2020 11:41
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stebe is phoebe’s real dad. pass it on.
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Sep 14, 2020 12:52
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:nvidia is buying arm. apple and nvidia have a weird grudge against each other. will nvidia use arm to gently caress apple? if it was a possibility aapl would’ve bought them with change in they couch cushions
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Sep 14, 2020 13:04
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Boiled Water posted:why are nvidia interested in arm anyway? afaik they don't have a magic gpu pill the speculation I’ve seen is is that Nvidia wants to monopolize ML hardware, and ARM can be their general purpose CPU to supplement the GPUs
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Sep 14, 2020 13:52
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PCjr sidecar posted:if it was a possibility aapl would’ve bought them with change in they couch cushions kind of blown away by the idea that yes, 40 billion us loving dollars amounts to nothing in aapl land
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Sep 14, 2020 13:55
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the other conspiracy theory is nvidia is going to be the ultimate patent troll and sue pretty much everyone under the sun
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Sep 14, 2020 13:57
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I know some applications make special use of the touchbar, but I don't think any applications used for (my) development work has made special use of it. I switched it to just display the simple button layout with push buttons for volume and backlight, a very expensive replacement for hardware buttons. at home my mba has no touchbar and it's perfect!! except for the butterfly keys which were supposed to be the new improved butterfly keys that don't break. they break. I get repeated keys all the god drat time now, and I'm covered for repair but I can't go to an apple store to get it fixed because the roni closed all the drat stores.
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Sep 14, 2020 15:35
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the touchbar seems like it could have some cool applications, i’d take one above a hardware F key row if it was an option.
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Sep 14, 2020 15:45
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President Beep posted:stebe is phoebe’s real dad. pass it on.
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Sep 14, 2020 15:53
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I genuinely have not seen the touchbar be used in a way that an on-screen interface wouldnt solve more reliably, unfortunately I've also heard horror stories about how easily they break
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Sep 14, 2020 15:56
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the touchbar is fine
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Sep 14, 2020 16:11
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none of the reason given actually make sense for buying arm. forty billion dollars is a shitload of money, and there’s no scenario in which nv makes that money back. they were already an arm architecture licensee, they could have shipped any chips they wanted. owning arm won’t make them better at making socs, the tegra line is still going to be a dumpster fire. for Apple this is bad news but not that bad. yes, they have a bulletproof license. but if arm stops listening to the direction Apple wants the architecture to go, and stops being helpful to designers then that’s a big drawback for apple’s future cores. it will be several years before this impact is seen in products. however they probably have enough freedom to continue forward without much support from arm, and diverge the architecture to meet their needs.
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Sep 14, 2020 16:20
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this is probably a stupid question but why does apple need arm to agree on how to handle the architecture? why doesnt apple just do whatever they want with it?
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Sep 14, 2020 16:23
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https://twitter.com/CBP/status/1305300486090825731?s=19
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Sep 14, 2020 16:29
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good to see they're finally cracking down on apple knockoffs.
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Sep 14, 2020 16:35
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lmao
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Sep 14, 2020 16:36
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the company on the box responded on twitter. i think cbp hosed up here unless those boxes say something like "manufactured by apple" on them because they seem pretty clearly to just be knockoff not people trying to hawk "apple" airpods.
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Sep 14, 2020 16:39
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https://twitter.com/oneplus/status/1305503249919688706
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:this is probably a stupid question but why does apple need arm to agree on how to handle the architecture? why doesnt apple just do whatever they want with it? arm is an experienced architecture design firm. it’s a valuable service and a skill set Apple didn’t have in house. they contracted arm to design a 64 bit architecture that met their needs. having a rigid spec to comply to is good, it keeps the cores consistent and decouples the architecture from the implementation. it keeps the chip designers honest, their work is tested against an arm conformance suite that tests more than just the use cases they care about. it gives them a standard process to submit changes to the ISA, where they are reviewed incorporated in a standardized way. the counterexample is intel, where every new core is weird in some quirky new way because their architectures and implementation are strongly convolved. Apple could very likely go off on its own and take the architecture any way it wants. this is not ideal, but if nvidia screws it up then that will probably be what happens.
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Sep 14, 2020 16:41
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The Management posted:none of the reason given actually make sense for buying arm. forty billion dollars is a shitload of money, and there’s no scenario in which nv makes that money back. they were already an arm architecture licensee, they could have shipped any chips they wanted. owning arm won’t make them better at making socs, the tegra line is still going to be a dumpster fire. isnt it an all stock deal? they are essentially getting it for a much steeper discount, because son has spent the past month pumping up tech stocks
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:this is probably a stupid question but why does apple need arm to agree on how to handle the architecture? why doesnt apple just do whatever they want with it? If everybody making arm chips wants to order pizza for lunch and Apple wants tuna for lunch Apple is more than welcome to order their own tuna but then they have to go get it themselves and then tuna stinks up the meeting room for the rest of the day and maybe next time Apple doesn’t get invited to lunch. And Apple might be okay with getting their own lunches every day but 15 years down the line there’s going to be a few times that being invited to those lunches would have been helpful.
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Sep 14, 2020 16:50
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cbp will soon announce that it seized a huge number of counterfeit iphones but it will just be a shitload of sarnsungs
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Sep 14, 2020 16:50
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that's also the company that told women on twitter to send them nudes to be able to buy thieir phones
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Sep 14, 2020 16:52
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:this is probably a stupid question but why does apple need arm to agree on how to handle the architecture? why doesnt apple just do whatever they want with it? it’s a term of the license agreement
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Sep 14, 2020 16:53
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I don't think I've ever been less interested in an apple event, without arm macs who cares and there's going to be like an hour of it spent on iphone lidar magic
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qirex posted:I don't think I've ever been less interested in an apple event, without arm macs who cares and there's going to be like an hour of it spent on iphone lidar magic But maybe they’ll talk about actual AR hardware that you also don’t care about.
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Sep 14, 2020 16:56
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if apple has actually managed to make good ar glasses after everyone else has spent billions making goofy steampunk head computers with ps2-level graphics I would be legitimately surprised
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Sep 14, 2020 16:59
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I would not be surprised if they made decent AR glasses but I would be surprised if they had worthwhile consumer use cases for them.
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Sep 14, 2020 17:01
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tk posted:If everybody making arm chips wants to order pizza for lunch and Apple wants tuna for lunch Apple is more than welcome to order their own tuna but then they have to go get it themselves and then tuna stinks up the meeting room for the rest of the day and maybe next time Apple doesn’t get invited to lunch. And Apple might be okay with getting their own lunches every day but 15 years down the line there’s going to be a few times that being invited to those lunches would have been helpful. please do not microwave pointer authentication in the office kitchen
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Sep 14, 2020 17:02
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qirex posted:I don't think I've ever been less interested in an apple event, without arm macs who cares and there's going to be like an hour of it spent on iphone lidar magic but there’s going to be new watches, dude. can’t wait to see Kevin’s stupid haircut as he spends 15 minutes talking about more watch features that will never be used by anyone and removed in future versions.
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Sep 14, 2020 17:10
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brb, sending my heartbeat to tim
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Sep 14, 2020 17:11
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The Management posted:but there’s going to be new watches, dude. can’t wait to see Kevin’s stupid haircut as he spends 15 minutes talking about more watch features that will never be used by anyone and removed in future versions. same. I love my apple watch so maybe I’ll get a new one and give my current one to someone in my family who wants it
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Endless Mike posted:that's also the company that told women on twitter to send them nudes to be able to buy thieir phones 
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Sep 14, 2020 19:24
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Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:isnt it an all stock deal? they are essentially getting it for a much steeper discount, because son has spent the past month pumping up tech stocks nah, fair amount of cash involved which nv will mostly borrow
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Sep 14, 2020 21:35
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if apple made a fitness band that didn't have a dumb tiny screen on it and just configured via your phone I'd buy one. def not gonna buy an apple watch though
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in a shocking switcheroo, apple announces that all iphones going forward will be intel x86 powered
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lol https://youtu.be/uzUozo1628U
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