[oofbey]

NVIDIA continues to vertically integrate their datacenter offerings. They bought mellanox to get infiniband. They tried to buy ARM - that didn't work. But they're building & bundling CPUs anyway. I guess when you're so far ahead on the compute side, it's all the peripherals that hold you back, so they're putting together a complete solution.

[DeepYogurt]

Nvidia's been making their own CPUs for a long time now. IIRC the first tegra was used in the Zune HD back in 2009. Hell they've even tried their hand at their own cpu core designs too.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/7621/nvidia-reveals-first-det...

https://www.anandtech.com/show/7622/nvidia-tegra-k1/2

[015a]

Maybe even more importantly: Tegra powers the Nintendo Switch.

[TazeTSchnitzel]

Note the CPU cores in that design aren't designed by NVidia.

[ggreg84]

Which is (EDIT: NOT) the most widely sold console ever.

[fazzyfoo]

Not by a long shot.

PS2 and DS outsell by about 50 million units.

[nickelcitymario]

"PS2? That can't possibly be right..."

https://www.vgchartz.com/analysis/platform_totals/

Holay molay.

[overtonwhy]

It was the most affordable DVD player. I think Sony owned patents on some DVD player tech? Same with PS4/5 and Blu Ray if I'm remembering correctly

[boondaburrah]

(clicks link) time to get /sad/ about being a SEGA fan again.

More seriously I wish some of the old consoles were officially opened because the absolute install base of PS1 and NES compatible hardware must be insane. Indie NES games specifically have become popular lately, but I don't think any of the 3D capable consoles are popular or open targets.

[ggreg84]

Indeed, wow.

[my123]

Tegra X2 and Xavier are still sold today and contain NVIDIA-designed CPU cores. The team behind those is building new designs too, I wonder when they’re going to announce something.

[azzentys]

Orin

[my123]

Orin uses the Cortex-A78AE core for the CPU complex instead of NVIDIA-designed cores.

[azzentys]

Ah, you meant like that. I assumed if they're bringing a new module architecture.