Back in mid-2013 Nvidia Corp. announced plans to license its Kepler graphics technology to other chip developers in a bid to increase monetization of its intellectual property and to spread its technologies onto markets and devices that the company simply cannot address. Unfortunately, so far Nvidia has not signed a single IP licensing deal.
Well, so much for Kepler this Kepler that. One day it has twice the power/efficiency ratio than GCN cores, the next it obliterates anything Qualcomm has at less power consumption, the next crops appear mowed by aliens.
But at the end of the day we need factual proof of all that.
Nvidia are probably being Nvidia. I remember when AMD were looking at them before ATI, Nvidia effectively wanted to control the resulting company. I reckon they're charging the earth compared to the competition.
Who and why would be licensing something that needs large dies to do what it does great, probably @ a hefty price, when it is already phased out by nVidia?
Mid 2013 we were already hyping Maxwell, and nVidia had already launched the epitome of Kepler with the smallest broadly available lithography at the time, in the form of 780Ti and K6000 cards.
License the IP to do what with it? develop custom PCBs and all this jazz to do what?
Would I save money over going with existing Kepler cards etc etc.
Too many questions requiring answers that we are I am not a privy to know, but judging from the result, I would say no one could outweigh the hassle (and cost) with the benefits.
It seems by the time K1 enters the arena competitors will be on 20nm. Nvidia needs to deliver on time, but their chances of success here in NA at with Tegra is next to none.
So how does this work exactly, Nvidia provides the chip and PCB?
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