If you can't buy...
...the company then the least you can do is subvert their IP.
Nvidia may not be The Devil, but they are a Devil.
2023 is shaping up to become a big year for Arm-based server chips, and a significant part of this drive will come from Nvidia, which appears steadfast in its belief in the future of Arm, even if it can't own the company. Several system vendors are expected to push out servers next year that will use Nvidia's new Arm-based …
There is nothing "illegal" or "shady" about developing your own Arm instruction processor when you've licensed the technology as NVidia has done. A license which, I might point out, specifically allows licensees to do just what NVidia has done if their pockets are deep enough.
I'd absolutely love to move to ARM servers. Everything I do is Linux based anyway.
...but how on earth does a lowly pleb like me get hold of an ARM server at a reasonable price? I have yet to find a source.
All I'd ask for is 8 cores at least and 16GB RAM in a nice 1U 450mm chassis with 4 drive bays.
I would put the price of that at £500-£600 given the performance difference with x86 and the lack of Microsoft tax.
Does this exist? If it does, I'd buy them all day long.