back to article Jensen Huang's kitchen gets another viewing as Nvidia teases Arm-powered supercomputing chip Grace

Nvidia says it has designed an Arm-based general-purpose processor named Grace for training massive neural networks and powering supercomputers, and plans to ship it in 2023. The news shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise. Nvidia has, for instance, its family of Arm-based system-on-chips dubbed the Tegra family, which are …

  1. RM Myers
    Unhappy

    Also from GTC...

    Eight more Ampere RTX GPUs for laptops, desktops and servers "that you won't actually be able to buy at MSRP". The sidebar left off the last, and most important, part.

    1. diodesign (Written by Reg staff) Silver badge

      "that you won't actually be able to buy at MSRP"

      Yeah, well, we figured Reg readers would know the context of all this chip announcement stuff. Demand > supply.

      It's just a sidebar of quick links to stuff we didn't have time to cover in detail.

      C.

      1. Snowy Silver badge

        Re: "that you won't actually be able to buy at MSRP"

        Supply is only less than demand due to them not making enough.

        1. Yet Another Anonymous coward Silver badge

          Re: "that you won't actually be able to buy at MSRP"

          Supply is only less than demand due to them not making enough.

          Isn't that true of everything?

  2. Bartholomew

    I love the choice of the name for the chip.

    You have to love grace hopper.

    Here is a short 2 minute video of her explaining nanoseconds in relation to why geostationary satellite communications are slow (in case you have never heard of her): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eyFDBPk4Yw

    1. Graham Cunningham

      Also...

      Credited with identifying - and coining the term - "bug".

  3. druck Silver badge

    Buy?

    All very exciting stuff, but none of which they need to buy ARM to do. I'd feel far more comfortable if ARM was independent of any of their custiomers.

  4. werdsmith Silver badge

    A Jetson version would be a proper laugh.

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