omar morales

civa said:

viclauyyc said:

Just the wait time of approval from various government will likely kill the deal. 

We can only hope. 

As I said before, this is not only a mistake, putting control of the ARM architecture directly in the hands of China (NVIDIA is Intel, and Intel is pretty much China), but it's going in the exact direction I expected it to go. 

I called this when it was first reported, and everyone said I was being Chicken Little. 

What now, brown cow? 

Mike Wuerthele said:

omar morales said:

How do I exactly get the $10 launch discount? it showing up at regular price. 

We'll talk to Plugable about it.

Edit - there you go, coupon code added to the article.

rob53 said:

loopless said:

Anyone who works in or develops HPC software cringes at this.  Sure it's likely you can make an ARM chip with the performance of high-end Xeons, but the world of HPC software is a million years away from XCode app development where you can flip a switch to build for a new architecture. There are so many bespoke libraries (e.g. Intel MKL) and years of optimization that have gone into getting HPC code to run fast on AVX Xeons.

Apple is a bit-player in HPC with the Mac Pro because of their 'war' with nVIDIA ( cutting off access to the compute power of their massively parallel GPUs)  - it would just sideline them even more if they went ARM.

I’ve been discussing this for some time and have yet to see anyone actually generate LINPACK or HPCG benchmark results let alone easy to use software. You can blame it on Apple or NVIDIA but HPC hasn’t been on Apple’s radar for years.