News Rising ASIC coalition' seeks to jettison Nvidia — Industry report claims firms are accelerating development in order to reduce dependence on the giant

[Admin]

Industry reports claim that ASIC shipments are projected to rise at a compound annual growth rate of 50%. This growth is largely attributed to top cloud hyperscalers such as Google, AWS, and Meta seeking to move away from reliance on Nvidia hardware.

Rising ASIC coalition' seeks to jettison Nvidia — Industry report claims firms are accelerating development in order to reduce dependence on the giant : Read more

 

[Neilbob]

Oh no! Jensen will end up having to switch to polyurethane jackets instead!

 

[motocros1]

if im reading this right, even if those companies switch to asic, then nvidia is still in a position to at least some profit. i don't like nvidia, but they do seem to make all the right moves from a purely business perspective.

 

[umeng2002_2]

Why not sooner? Jesus Christ.

 

[flowingbass]

It's high time the world stopped tolerating nvidia's price gouging. Jensen thinks this world has unlimited resources and nvidia is an and all be all. Can't wait to see nvidia get intel'd.

 

[ekio]

He thought he could charge mafia level prices forever without having clients looking for alternatives?

That is a study case of total monopoly abuse. Nvidia went too far.

 

[bit_user]

if im reading this right, even if those companies switch to asic, then nvidia is still in a position to at least some profit. i don't like nvidia, but they do seem to make all the right moves from a purely business perspective.

NVLink Fusion is not about replacing lost chip sales with IP licensing, as I'm sure the license costs for NVLink are pocket change, compared with what they're making on each server GPU they sell. Instead, I think they see the writing on the wall - that the industry is evolving its own open standards to counter NVLink, such as UALink:

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Since Nvidia has no interest in adopting UALink, that standard represents a threat, since datacenters embracing UALink-based products might begin to frown on using anything which doesn't support it. Hence, the best option is to enlarge the NVLink ecosystem, by letting 3rd parties integrate it, so that Nvidia can continue to dominate the datacenter/AI networking niche they've carved out.

 

[bit_user]

Why not sooner?

Nvidia was too far ahead and it's just taken a long time for the rest of the industry to catch them. It's not for lack of trying.

He thought he could charge mafia level prices forever without having clients looking for alternatives?

That is a study case of total monopoly abuse. Nvidia went too far.

I'd argue that Nvidia played its hand well. It exploited its monopoly position to the maximum extent, knowing that it wouldn't last forever. Their pricing model was further bolstered by natural supply constraints, creating a shortage situation that nobody could blame on them.

Make no mistake: competitors were an inevitability, regardless of how much Nvidia charged.

 

[M0rtis]

Its more about wanting a slice of the pie rather than wanting to reduce costs. I dont think nVidia has anything to worry about for the next 5 years or so.

 

[psykhon-]

1 "per reports" means "we don't know and just copy pasting other's.
2 Latest quarterly results from Nvidia, Broadcom, Marvel and others clearly show this article and it source to be a steaming lie. The truth is in the pudding.

 

[bit_user]

1 "per reports" means "we don't know and just copy pasting other's.

Digitimes is paywalled, Tom's is not. I'm not invested enough in the semiconductor industry for it to be worth paying a subscription, but I still like to have a rough idea of what's going on.

2 Latest quarterly results from Nvidia, Broadcom, Marvel and others clearly show this article and it source to be a steaming lie. The truth is in the pudding.

The article is talking about forward-looking developments, whereas quarterly reports are backward-looking.

 

[psykhon-]

The article is talking about forward-looking developments, whereas quarterly reports are backward-looking.

Yeah, this guys can predict the future while ignoring the present.