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So, there's this video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fZM9wOvbh0
It goes into detail about an upcoming GPU from an up-and-coming
technology company, Bolt Graphics. Their intent is to create an
end-user focused (as opposed to data-center focused, although they
will target that market too) mid-range GPU alternative.
The device is... interesting. It's an entirely new architecture and
is, in many ways, as much a PC-on-a-card as it is a GPU. It uses an
ARM chipset and you could actually run Linux on it. Its architecture
actually reminds me a bit of the overly-complicated PS2 'Emotion
Engine' architecture (with its multiple CPU subsystems), which means programming for it (and developing games that take advantage of its capabilities) will require an entirely new set of skills. Also, it has user-upgradable RAM (using laptop SODIMM modules), which takes me back
to the 90s when that sort of thing was more common.
It's a neat gadget. I don't think it has a chance of hell in
succeeding. But I don't really care. I'm just happy to see some
competition coming back to the graphics card industry. For too long
it's really just been AMD vs Nvidia as the mainstays (with nvidia the
clear victor). But AMD is picking up market share, even as Intel's ARC processors are becoming more viable for game machines. Meanwhile,
Apple's M5 silicon is impressive tech, and other ARM architectures are
a future threat. Now we have Bolt Graphics. Nvidia's position no
longer looks as unassailable as it did just a couple of years ago.
Honestly, it's starting to feel like the late 90s/early 2000s again,
when there were dozens of competitors on the market and new ideas were
flooding the market. I miss those days.
Are we seeing the beginning of the end for nvidia's dominance, do you
think?
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