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Sean Hollister

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544 total appearances

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The Vergecast
Nvidia just started a new chip war

It may be easier, at least in the short term for NVIDIA, to lean on that and say, yeah, there's a platform here we can build on.

The Vergecast
Nvidia just started a new chip war

But I don't think it's out of the question if they wanted to make an operating system someday and own it completely vertically like Apple.

The Vergecast
Nvidia just started a new chip war

Why not?

The Vergecast
Nvidia just started a new chip war

Particularly because then they can put that in the cloud.

The Vergecast
Nvidia just started a new chip war

They can deliver that to your device remotely as well as doing it locally.

The Vergecast
Nvidia just started a new chip war

Why not?

The Vergecast
Nvidia just started a new chip war

I don't think we've heard them state that, but we've certainly, you know, like you said, they're trying to dominate every every angle of it.

The Vergecast
Nvidia just started a new chip war

The super funny thing about the RTX Spark Super Chip is that it already exists and it was already released in a device by Nvidia called the DGX Spark.

The Vergecast
Nvidia just started a new chip war

It's a tiny gold box.

The Vergecast
Nvidia just started a new chip war

I don't know why it's gold, but it was very gold.

The Vergecast
Nvidia just started a new chip war

I don't know if they thought Trump was going to come by that day or something.

The Vergecast
Nvidia just started a new chip war

Anyhow, tidy gold box with a big ARM chip and a substantial chunk of like laptop mobile graphics power, GeForce graphics power in there.

The Vergecast
Nvidia just started a new chip war

And what they did originally was they just released it as like a $4,000, $5,000 AI box.

The Vergecast
Nvidia just started a new chip war

And they said, hey, run your local models on it.

The Vergecast
Nvidia just started a new chip war

What happened around the same time as that, maybe after they announced it before they released it, was AMD announced

The Vergecast
Nvidia just started a new chip war

decided that they were going to also build a super chip, quote unquote.

The Vergecast
Nvidia just started a new chip war

They didn't call it a super chip, whatever, called the Strix Halo or the Ryzen AI Max platform, Max Plus.

The Vergecast
Nvidia just started a new chip war

And so this thing, like AMD's chip, has a crazy,

The Vergecast
Nvidia just started a new chip war

crapload of memory, 128 gigs of memory on the chip, gobs of memory inside this AMD chip.

The Vergecast
Nvidia just started a new chip war

And they made it an application processor.