back to article Nvidia wants to lure you to the Arm side with fresh server bait

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 …

  1. chuckufarley

    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.

    1. druck Silver badge

      Re: If you can't buy...

      What brings you to that conclusion?

      1. chuckufarley

        Re: If you can't buy...

        History.

    2. jglathe

      Re: If you can't buy...

      I'm sure you're not wrong. I like the performance of their products, though. I think a fitting comparision would be Weylandt Corp. They are enablers and sip your life blood at the same time.

    3. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: If you can't buy...

      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.

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Well, if I win the lottery, a Grace based "workstation" might be fun and interesting. :)

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Sure...

    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.

    1. Bitsminer Silver badge

      Re: Sure...

      Sorry but it's the 21st century.

      You can only rent, not buy:

      c7g.2xlarge $0.29/h USD on demand, US East (Virginia), AWS EC2 (8 vCPU, 16GiB Graviton3).

      Not a great deal, obviously, unless you can turn it off at night.

    2. MrDamage

      Re: Sure...

      https://www.gigabyte.com/ca/Enterprise/Rack-Server/R152-P32-rev-100#Specifications

      https://amperecomputing.com/reference-platforms/ampere-altra-platforms-for-modern-compute/

      https://www.avantek.co.uk/

      No idea about their affordability though.

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Re: Sure...

        "No idea about their affordability though"

        Yeah that's the problem.

        Usually, I assume if I have to call for a quote, I probably can't afford it or it's overpriced.

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