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David Pierce

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The Vergecast
Nvidia just started a new chip war

And it's like, hey, guys, I don't know if you know this.

The Vergecast
Nvidia just started a new chip war

People really like your graphics cards.

The Vergecast
Nvidia just started a new chip war

That's actually one of the things a lot of people are attempting to buy from you right now.

The Vergecast
Nvidia just started a new chip war

They cost a billion dollars and no one can get any.

The Vergecast
Nvidia just started a new chip war

But this is like a core competency of this company.

The Vergecast
Nvidia just started a new chip war

And this is what I keep thinking about is like...

The Vergecast
Nvidia just started a new chip war

If NVIDIA had just come out and said, we are releasing essentially the full hardware stack to make the greatest gaming laptops you've ever seen in your entire life, that would make perfect sense to me, right?

The Vergecast
Nvidia just started a new chip war

But there's just these little pieces of things missing that it's where the strategy starts to fall off for me.

The Vergecast
Nvidia just started a new chip war

What do you make of the fact that you can't attach this thing to something like a discrete GPU, which is what a vast number of NVIDIA fans want to do?

The Vergecast
Nvidia just started a new chip war

That's fair.

The Vergecast
Nvidia just started a new chip war

Yeah.

The Vergecast
Nvidia just started a new chip war

And I guess it does make sense if you're trying to make this sort of mainstream play.

The Vergecast
Nvidia just started a new chip war

Doing the best you can is within the one chip is probably the correct answer.

The Vergecast
Nvidia just started a new chip war

Like, I guess we have to give NVIDIA a chance to release more than one of these things.

The Vergecast
Nvidia just started a new chip war

One of the things I think is most interesting here is that NVIDIA announced most of the PC industry as its partners.

The Vergecast
Nvidia just started a new chip war

And not only that, they didn't, like every time Qualcomm does one of these, they put up the slide and they're like, we're working with these 11 companies.

The Vergecast
Nvidia just started a new chip war

And you're like, what are they working on?

The Vergecast
Nvidia just started a new chip war

And they're like, we'll never tell.

The Vergecast
Nvidia just started a new chip war

And...

The Vergecast
Nvidia just started a new chip war

But not only did NVIDIA launch this with a bunch of big name launch partners, Lenovo and HP and Dell and Asus and kind of all the companies you would want if you're trying to make a real mainstream laptop play.