Huawei looking to enter the GPU business, recruits Nvidia engineers
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- AnonD-909757
- 0JM
- 10 Apr 2020
I predicted that Huawei might take advantage of their fabless experience to make their own fabric and start going into mainstream PC CPU along with smartphone's SoC.
I didn't imagine they would be crazy enough to go into GPU, even pro grade, because unlike CPU where the architecture, the various instructions and the micro code is the important part, the real deal with GPU is the drivers which are crazy hard to do, more than the GPU itself.
Though for mass computing, they don't need to handle all the gaming specific stuff such as Anti Aliasing, shaders, per game optimisations and other complicated stuff, here this is more a PCI-E card with many RISC chips that they are more than qualified enough to do thanks to their ARM experience...
So the USA created themselves a huge and fierce rival !
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- Anonymous
- u7V
- 10 Apr 2020
I'm actually a bit confused.
IIRC much of the know-how of building a gpu are already patented by Nvidia and ATI/AMD. You just can't poach some engineers and ask them to build a gpu without infringing some of their patents. Well, I guess you could if you create your own techniques but all of the good stuff of making faster gpu is locked already.
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- Anonymous
- Njb
- 10 Apr 2020
Anonymous, 10 Apr 2020more like end of Nvidia staff who jumped ship cause Huawei ... moreLol no this isn't apple.
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- Rockstar
- SHi
- 10 Apr 2020
Anonymous, 10 Apr 2020They are in a hurry not having access to the latest cores.
... moreCheck your sources
https://www.notebookcheck.net/SD-865-vs-Kirin-990-5G_11551_11508.247596.0.html
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- Anonymous
- v3B
- 10 Apr 2020
If, 10 Apr 2020If this was true this will be the end of nvidiamore like end of Nvidia staff who jumped ship cause Huawei wil just copy their stuff and dump them aside
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- Anonymous
- fsV
- 10 Apr 2020
Anonymous, 10 Apr 2020LOL and Nvidia will allow them to do so ROFL. #AprilFoolJo... moreBaby, Huawei isn't Microsoft the company is more wiser as you may think. Can't you take progress channel if something hinders you. Huawei has been phenomenal since the Bull in White House tried to stop the company innovations
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- Anonymous
- D06
- 10 Apr 2020
empire strikes back!!!
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- 10 Apr 2020
If this was true this will be the end of nvidia
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- Anonymous
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- 10 Apr 2020
LOL and Nvidia will allow them to do so ROFL.
#AprilFoolJoke
I can see the huawei future as there is no GMS like Nokia lumia lineup
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- Yk
- XUy
- 10 Apr 2020
I like competition
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- Anonymous
- S2T
- 10 Apr 2020
They are in a hurry not having access to the latest cores.
Already in performance the Kirin 990 is lagging as far behind as it always has. No improvement compared to the yearly Snapdragon and Apple chips.
A 20% difference for a flagship SOC is massive.
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- Anonymous
- 39b
- 10 Apr 2020
Kek, 10 Apr 2020Yeah, no. This will go the same way as that Huameng OS thin... moreThe OS is already in use in some televisions (and possibly other small devices?)
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- Anonymous
- 0xr
- 10 Apr 2020
[deleted post]If they offer more money and better conditions who cares. And Huawei is quite prestigious, they are worldwide no1 network and cellular supplier. Nvidia is nothing but a engineering bureau reliant on tsmc.
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- Mohsen
- L2n
- 10 Apr 2020
Very good. Better than mali with bad throttles in kirin chips.
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- Anonymous
- 0cL
- 10 Apr 2020
More likely to steal Nvidia tech, then tie it up in court while trying to sell in the developing world.
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- Amp
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- 10 Apr 2020
Kek, 10 Apr 2020Yeah, no. This will go the same way as that Huameng OS thin... moreThis is quite true but we don't know when will Huawei will strike back again
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- Kek
- GBh
- 10 Apr 2020
Anonymous, 10 Apr 2020Wow this is just wow. America did bury them selvesYeah, no. This will go the same way as that Huameng OS thing.
They have been developing this since 2012. During 8 years, you would expect them to show off something in between those time periods. They will probably recruit those Nvidia engineers, copy paste something made by Nvidia, tweak it a little, put a chinese name to it and call it their own revolutionary vision.
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- huawei stealers
- uRE
- 10 Apr 2020
GG..the nividia people poached will disclose all the gpu secrets..china had literally zero IP rights protection