carnalimr

It's scary how deceiving the past few articles by you are. Not sure if you understand Nvidia as a company to be honest. You do understand at least the major working parts that are driving Nvidia's growth and potential future success correct? I'll assume not because of the article you wrote so here:

• Consumer GPU's have been funding Nvidia's main revenue driver but powering the following stuff:
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• Highend GPU's for workstations and HPC (high performance computing) are very spontaneous blips in revenue but proving to drive wider adoption (data scientists now creating tools allowing more common people to tap into both workstation and home GPU, ie TensorFlow is a good example or CUDA based programming)
• Changing form factors and building full scale embedded platforms (tegra, drive) 
• Building a software ecosystem around Nvidia and CUDA (Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Advanced Rendering, etc)
• Cloud Providers now lowering cost to take advantage of the above (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud) now providing the average worker ability to use frameworks originally designed by people having access to very high end hardware now can rent it out cheaply
• VR/AR growth being driven by GPU's ability to drive rendering at a speed to make immersion more viable 

Are you starting to understand Nivida as a company and what is going on? I'll continue to be an ass because I don't think you get the concept of screen grabbing a point in time on a stock where a downgrade was announced and using that with no correlation to Apple dumping Imagination. 

Apple and Nvidia are in very much different sectors and going after completely different land grabs. 

DanielEran said:

freeper said:

Much of this is ... well ... not true.

Calling Tegra a failure - and then moving the goalposts by claiming that it is only a failure in MOBILE when the article itself referenced GPUs for Macs - is simply wrong. 

Tegra is Nvidia's name for the mobile-optimized version of its desktop GPUs. That's a project that failed.

There is no "Tegra" relevant to desktop GPUs in Macs. 

Nvidia can reuse the Tegra brand to describe other things, but that's irrelevant.  

uhh.... I think you are missing the point entirely. Tegra was Nvidia's SOC. Not graphics on a mobile platform. Tegra as the SOC platform is becoming an extreme success. 

I think you now are kind of boxing yourself into Tegra was a failure because you classified it as mobile only and mobile being tablet and phone, nothing more)... 

tmay said:

carnalimr said:

I think you need to edit a bit. Nvidia Tegra is hard to say its a failure. If you look at what it is in:

• Nvidia Shield
• Audi 
• Nintendo Switch 
• A few different phones

I'm sure I am missing a few other products but you get the point. 

If you look at PowerPC as a name has kind of lived on in the Power Architecture of IBM. 

Tegra is dead in mobile, including tablets, but if you can name some current smartphones or tablets that use it, I'm willing to reevaluate my claim. Nvidia Shield and Nintendo Switch are game machines, and don't have the same power or form factor constraints as smartphones.

You are aware that Switch's main point is to be a mobile gaming tablet right that can be used both as a tablet and home console....

You are also aware that Nvidia shield isnt meant to be just a gaming machine but another Android TV device that has the capability to do gaming and PC streaming... 

I think you need to edit a bit. Nvidia Tegra is hard to say its a failure. If you look at what it is in:

• Nvidia Shield
• Audi 
• Nintendo Switch 
• A few different phones

I'm sure I am missing a few other products but you get the point. 

If you look at PowerPC as a name has kind of lived on in the Power Architecture of IBM.