The question is can they grow more clones when they need them or do they come out different if they're from separate batches? Like did they make like 20 Barack Obamas in case they needed extras? Or is there just like 2 and if they stop working they grow more? How long would it take to grow replacements?
blobjim
joined 5 years ago
How far they've fallen.
Yes, although the 240.0.0.0/8–255.0.0.0/8 block looks like it's actually 15 /8 blocks, so it's almost equivalent to the DoD stuff and US corporation stuff all together (20 /8 blocks if I'm not wrong).
Integrated cpu xD
I wouldn't rule that out actually. NVIDIA did buy Mellanox so they could integrate Infiniband with NVIDIA GPUs more directly so you can have fancier GPU clusters. At that point, having a powerful CPU and associated infrastructure is kind of pointless. I guess they'll end up looking like whatever SANs (storage area network, i.e. all the hard drives are separate from the compute servers) look like.
For consumer stuff, obviously idk. I think the giant GPUs are maybe because people are willing to buy them. The actual GPU itself provided by NVIDIA or AMD or Intel is actually a tiny little thing that looks like a CPU.
(GPU board without fans and plastic cover, you can see the GPU chip in the middle taking up a small part of the board)
And when they're on a laptop, it's just that actual GPU that's soldered onto the motherboard.
So GPUs themselves aren't actually getting that much bigger. I don't know if it's the memory, power, or the fans that are the cause of the massive GPU board sizes.
BmanUltima 18 points 7 months ago
Higher power consumption requires more cooling, and the easiest way to do that is to add more surface area.
I almost wonder if custom-built desktop computers will eventually go away. I feel like it would be a lot more efficient to just have the CPU and GPU soldered onto the same motherboard the same way a laptop would. Then they could both share a common cooling and power infrastructure.
And maybe liquid cooling will become more popular.
Maybe some day there will be a massive breakthrough in computer part cooling. But refrigerants are already a thing I guess, and that's what liquid cooling is.
Shut up Trotsky
There was an article like this a couple months ago
What recent Batman movie? Because the 2022 "The Batman" was definitely not socialist lol.
"We" :inigo-montoya:
"[32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58]"
the communists can't win eh? 
I wonder what they actually do with all the money they do get.
That's only if it's x86_64 and not ARM or RISC-V and only if NVIDIA is designing the CPU themselves which they wouldn't do. Desktop/industrial motherboards just have a socket that fits a certain CPU pinout.