OK, maybe you wouldn’t pay three grand for a Project DIGITS PC. But what about a $1,000 Blackwell PC from Acer, Asus, or Lenovo?


Besides, why not use native Linux as the primary operating system on this new chip family? Linux, after all, already runs on the Grace Blackwell Superchip. Windows doesn’t. It’s that simple.

Nowadays, Linux runs well with Nvidia chips. Recent benchmarks show that open-source Linux graphic drivers work with Nvidia GPUs as well as its proprietary drivers.

Even Linus Torvalds thinks Nvidia has gotten its open-source and Linux act together. In August 2023, Torvalds said, “Nvidia got much more involved in the kernel. Nvidia went from being on my list of companies who are not good to my list of companies who are doing really good work.”

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    8 days ago

    Haven’t they been making things like the Jetson AGX for years? I guess this is an announcement of the next generation.

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        8 days ago

        But arm is the most deployed microprocessor in the world? I’d much rather write arm assembly than Intel or PowerPC. For higher level languages, arm has good compiler support. Can you explain why you don’t like arm? I’m genuinely curious because it is probably my favorite development environment (I mostly write embedded system software).

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          7 days ago

          It is an horrible ecosystem that could very well end the era of the personnal computer. I type this on an arm device which I cannot ever be root on. Arm has been the biggest rollback in user freedom since windows 10.