Hmm, from what I understand, traditionally 3rd party vendors had to pay the OEMs to have their hardware certified, e.g. Broadcom would have to pay HP.
Since Nvidia needs to pay for the ARM aquisition and their new position on the planet, I'd hazard it's now the OEMs that have to pay up to Nvidia so they are permitted a slice of the ML cake.
Either way the buck will be passed on to the end user eventually.
NVIDIA isn't having its hardware certified. NVIDIA is certifying that the hardware works with its software libraries the way it is intended to. People looking to buy these certified systems are people who are presumably looking to use the NVIDIA software stack.
And yes, of course the buck will be passed on to the end user. It is a service the end user is looking to pay for. The certification is going to be advertised as if it adds value to the server. Whether it does or not, well, that's what IT divisions are paid to figure out, isn't it? NVIDIA is not demanding that all servers be certified. It's optional. NVIDIA is offering a certification program so that the users who want to make sure that things are working correctly can have the certification. And if they buy certified server they can sign up with direct software support from NVIDIA.
NVIDIA doesn't need more money to pay for the ARM acquisition. It already has the money.
Anytime there's something with NVIDIA on any site there's going to be people in the comments looking to spin a tale of how NVIDIA is fleecing the world with whatever new is going on. It's tiresome.
Too bad , is anandtech now only report news concerning GPUs??? Just a small comparison between CPU reviews and everything else including GPUs and you realize the unexplainable huge gap , hope that CPU reviews quality will be the norm for all categories including GPUs !!!!!
There have been at least 7 CPU reviews/tests since the last GPU review/test from what I have seen, and that's only going back to October. I haven't checked to see when the actual last GPU review or test was. (I'm not counting SoC reviews that have both CPU and GPU elements). That despite there being multiple major GPU launches over the past 4 months. If you go to the GPUs tab and click on the 5th page of news from the site you get back to April 27, 2020. If you go to the CPUs tab and click on the 5th page of news you get to July 20, 2020. If you click on the 10th page for each, for GPUs you get to July 16, 2019 and for CPUs you get to December 13, 2019. I'm really not sure what you're talking about.
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abufrejoval - Tuesday, January 26, 2021 - link
Hmm, from what I understand, traditionally 3rd party vendors had to pay the OEMs to have their hardware certified, e.g. Broadcom would have to pay HP.Since Nvidia needs to pay for the ARM aquisition and their new position on the planet, I'd hazard it's now the OEMs that have to pay up to Nvidia so they are permitted a slice of the ML cake.
Either way the buck will be passed on to the end user eventually.
Yojimbo - Tuesday, January 26, 2021 - link
NVIDIA isn't having its hardware certified. NVIDIA is certifying that the hardware works with its software libraries the way it is intended to. People looking to buy these certified systems are people who are presumably looking to use the NVIDIA software stack.And yes, of course the buck will be passed on to the end user. It is a service the end user is looking to pay for. The certification is going to be advertised as if it adds value to the server. Whether it does or not, well, that's what IT divisions are paid to figure out, isn't it? NVIDIA is not demanding that all servers be certified. It's optional. NVIDIA is offering a certification program so that the users who want to make sure that things are working correctly can have the certification. And if they buy certified server they can sign up with direct software support from NVIDIA.
NVIDIA doesn't need more money to pay for the ARM acquisition. It already has the money.
Anytime there's something with NVIDIA on any site there's going to be people in the comments looking to spin a tale of how NVIDIA is fleecing the world with whatever new is going on. It's tiresome.
nadim.kahwaji - Wednesday, January 27, 2021 - link
Too bad , is anandtech now only report news concerning GPUs??? Just a small comparison between CPU reviews and everything else including GPUs and you realize the unexplainable huge gap , hope that CPU reviews quality will be the norm for all categories including GPUs !!!!!Yojimbo - Thursday, January 28, 2021 - link
There have been at least 7 CPU reviews/tests since the last GPU review/test from what I have seen, and that's only going back to October. I haven't checked to see when the actual last GPU review or test was. (I'm not counting SoC reviews that have both CPU and GPU elements). That despite there being multiple major GPU launches over the past 4 months. If you go to the GPUs tab and click on the 5th page of news from the site you get back to April 27, 2020. If you go to the CPUs tab and click on the 5th page of news you get to July 20, 2020. If you click on the 10th page for each, for GPUs you get to July 16, 2019 and for CPUs you get to December 13, 2019. I'm really not sure what you're talking about.GreenReaper - Sunday, January 31, 2021 - link
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