1. Yeah, nVidia owns ARM and Mellanox (AKA the defacto provider of Infiniband).
2. Why change an entire interconnect standard rather than simply choosing one that is a better fit for your use case?
Forcing a 50 year old standard to change because they don't fit what you want now in 2023 is dumb. Create a new standard that fits your needs, or use a different standard that fits your needs.
It sounds like they are trying to consolidate every communication subsystem into as few 'standards' as possible making a one size fits all for the industry. Obvious some drawbacks to that but it will aid adoption.
There's nothing to say that new needs can't be met by a subset standard rather than one that impacts the rest of Ethernet communications, but I get your point and it's valid. We can quite literally just wave a magic thought wand and invent a new standard at any point and even associate that standard with something so it's lumped and consolidated with ease so this does seem a bit lacking in vision.
Ethernet standard has changed many times already, otherwise you'd be stuck on low bandwidth and expensive cabling (thicknet), good standards are updated as technology needs and allows and that's a good thing.
One thing, Nvidia does not own ARM, (which is a good thing), neither will they in the future, it looks like they will be a large shareholder in a future IPO but that is a different thing.
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StevoLincolnite - Friday, July 21, 2023 - link
Interesting not to see ARM or nVidia in that mix considering how much they are set to profit from A.I.stanleyipkiss - Friday, July 21, 2023 - link
nVidia probably wants to sell you Mellanox DPUs (Blufield?)James5mith - Friday, July 21, 2023 - link
Two things:1. Yeah, nVidia owns ARM and Mellanox (AKA the defacto provider of Infiniband).
2. Why change an entire interconnect standard rather than simply choosing one that is a better fit for your use case?
Forcing a 50 year old standard to change because they don't fit what you want now in 2023 is dumb. Create a new standard that fits your needs, or use a different standard that fits your needs.
Samus - Saturday, July 22, 2023 - link
It sounds like they are trying to consolidate every communication subsystem into as few 'standards' as possible making a one size fits all for the industry. Obvious some drawbacks to that but it will aid adoption.PeachNCream - Saturday, July 22, 2023 - link
There's nothing to say that new needs can't be met by a subset standard rather than one that impacts the rest of Ethernet communications, but I get your point and it's valid. We can quite literally just wave a magic thought wand and invent a new standard at any point and even associate that standard with something so it's lumped and consolidated with ease so this does seem a bit lacking in vision.Zoolook - Saturday, July 22, 2023 - link
Ethernet standard has changed many times already, otherwise you'd be stuck on low bandwidth and expensive cabling (thicknet), good standards are updated as technology needs and allows and that's a good thing.Zoolook - Saturday, July 22, 2023 - link
One thing, Nvidia does not own ARM, (which is a good thing), neither will they in the future, it looks like they will be a large shareholder in a future IPO but that is a different thing.