News Patch v1.26

ARMonopoly Averted!

• Nvidia might be set to walk away from its deal with SoftBank’s chip manufacturer Arm (reported in news patch v11.17)
• Receiving opposition from almost everyone who uses the chip giants hardware, as well as investigations by the UK govt., means the deal may not close as anticipated.
• Nvidia claims the deal would not hinder console manufacturers and may even create competition amongst its competitors
• There have been rumblings of Softbank preparing for a public offering
• The deal will expire on September 13th of this year

Skynet is that you?

• Facebook and Nvidia are working together to build an AI supercomputer named RSC (Air Research SuperCluster)
• RSC will flex 5 exaflops, or 5000000 teraflops of AI performance across thousands of GPUs
• The Supercomputer will train AI models with trillions of parameters, learn languages and help identify harmful content
• Does a facebook owned company need this?

Not Cheap nUFF

• GPU prices have been declining along with a recent drop in crypto values and mining activity
• Bitcoin and Ethereum are both down almost 50% from their highs a few months ago
• One example is the newer RTX 3080 Ti dropping from about $1800 to… $1600
• A price drop is always welcome, but thanks to the continuing supply shortages we shouldn’t expect a pricing renaissance just yet
• Is this just a downswing in crypto? Value normalization?
• Even if crypto settles lower, the supply shortages is expected to last in to 2023