[donkeydoug]

soooo... would something like this be a viable option for a non-mac desktop similar to the 'mac studio' ? def seems targeted at the cloud vendors and large labs... but it'd be great to have a box like that which could run linux.

[opencl]

It's viable in the sense that you can just stick a server motherboard inside of a desktop case. It certainly won't be cheap though.

This has been done as a commercial product with the Ampere ARM server chips. The base model is about $8k.

https://store.avantek.co.uk/arm-desktops.html

[my123]

It’s a server CPU that runs any OS really (Arm SystemReady with UEFI and ACPI).

However, the price tag will be too high for a lot of desktop buyers.

(There are smaller Tegras around though)

[oneplane]

It probably won't run Windows. But other operating systems, probably yes. Maybe Microsoft comes up with some sort of Windows Server DC Arm edition in the future so they can join in as well.

[my123]

Modern Tegras can boot arm64 Windows. But yeah without a licensable Windows Server arm64 SKU, practical uses are quite limited.

[wmf]

Nvidia Orin would be a better fit for an ARM desktop/laptop but Nvidia seemingly isn't interested in that market.

[fulafel]

As long as your application workload is a good match for the 144 ARM cores.