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[Mengy]

It can't be anything good, that's for sure.

This is my gut feeling too, hah!

 

[Wolzard]

Steam has ARM builds so this is great news.

And Linux is guaranteed to work

Nvidia was hiring engineers with experience in ARM and Proton a while back.

NVIDIA hiring Linux driver engineers to help with Vulkan, Proton and more

NVIDIA have multiple job listings available for Linux developers - this could be your chance to improve Linux gaming if you have the skills.

www.gamingonlinux.com

Since it's Nvidia that's involved, Linux support should be possible.

The DGX Spark only supports Linux. As it's a derivative chip, that support already exists. The new feature is Windows.

They're talking about a new era, Windows on ARM is likely to take off.

 

[SScorpio]

Despite the consumer to business ratio of earnings, Microsoft has only been the agnostic doorman for 40 years because the consumer numbers with Dos and then the Windows user interface translated into business having a pre-trained Dos/Windows/Word/Excel/Power/Access work force, that drove business spend to be 100 to 1 of consumer spend. So I don't agree with your point because to move the status quo the consumer market needs to adopt Windows and Nvidia ARM as though it is still Windows/x86 and x64 they are using, which I don't see happening for the reasons I mentioned in my previous post.


RaspberryPi and SteamOS are both positioning themselves as program centric like DOS and Windows "PC" were at their core. Add good performance to RaspberryPi and SteamOS hardware to rival x86/x84 and the resistance to those systems drops relative to Windows/X64 and makes the proprietary Nvidia ARM strategies look like even worse risk platforms than they already look relative to Windows/x86 & x64, linux/x86 & x64 or ARM IMO.

Nvidia need to make Cuda/Cg/DLSS hardware agnostic to win this battle IMO, which they are never going to do, unless forced by the EU/UK as a technology gatekeeper.

I don't really get why you're bringing up RaspberryPis. They were a cool flash in the pan hacking device as a cheap $30 computer. But the price has gone up. They don't make sense as mini home servers compared to mini PCs which are in the same price range, but have better storage IO and are more reliable.

Why would NVIDIA make their technology hardware agnostic? They worked with people in the medical research industry and developed CUDA from the ground up for them. DLSS and the older GameWorks were toolkit given away freely to devs that improved games. AMD needs to make their tech open as they don't have the market share to get people to use it otherwise.

These new devices will be ARM with Vulkan a supporting GPU. Those are open standards. But you can also dip into the line library of CUDA. If you want to blame someone that your AMD card can't do the compute you want. Go blame AMD on dragging their feet and porting the major industry Math libraries to their hardware. A lot of stuff that currently needs CUDA would be more open if AMD did that.

I think you have the consumer pipeline backwards. Businesses were on DOS and then Windows. Using Office with Word and Excel. That drove people to use that at home, not the other way around. In the late 80s early 90s Apple made big issues on having Apple 2s and Macs in classrooms to make sure the next generation of kids were all Apple users. The creative industry art (photoshop), movies, etc took up Macs. Everyone else stayed on Windows.

 

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