Bring the hammer down on Nvidia, US progressive and antitrust orgs urge the Feds

https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/01/nvidia_doj/

by rntn • 2 years ago

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jacooper• 2 years ago

For what? It's like suing apple after the first iPhone. I am all for anti trust action against big tech, but this is too much, Nvidia just has a better product, and it seems AMD is catching up right now, at least if their sales indicate anything.

billconan• 2 years ago

yes, and at least their GPU is more open than TPU.

TechnicolorByte• 2 years ago

Seems silly. Nvidia focused on the market several years ago while other players fumbled the bag with multiple startup buyouts and no coherent execution plan (Intel) or were too focused on the wrong product with x86 CPUs (AMD). Never mind all the failed AI hardware startups who believed an ASIC optimized for ResNet and early DL models would somehow be in play as the market evolved to Transformers.

Nvidia played the long game, focused on enough generalization to be useful for future models and opening their software brought such that other players could write frameworks/compilers for them. Nvidia also supports x86 CPUs in their servers (they don’t lock it to their Grace CPU AFAIK) and allow Ethernet fabrics (not locking it to their infiniband).

Now AMD’s GPU division is doing what they do best: slowly copying Nvidia’s execution and catching up on software, which means they’ll always play second fiddle.

How is any of that antitrust?

Bring the hammer down on Nvidia, US progressive and antitrust orgs urge the Feds

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