News Nvidia keeping prized NVLink tech closely guarded — companies warn restrictions could hamper deployment of some solutions

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Nvidia's NVLink Fusion program has drawn interest from the industry aiming to build custom CPUs and accelerators for its ecosystem, but the initiative remains tightly controlled by the green company, which may limit its success.

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[hotaru251]

when will corpo learn that giving more power to nvidia is not in their favor long term?

straight up deny working w/ their closed stuff. do that and they'll make it open in time.

 

[abufrejoval]

Yeah, just what I predicted, only a weaponization of "open".

So I guess now a regulator or three should step in and provide some extra motivation, doesn't even have to be the full thing, ...yet.

 

[JTWrenn]

Starting to look more and more like nvidia needs to be broken up. So damn many of these companies need to be broken up.

 

[edzieba]

A proprietary standard never marketed as open is not actually an open standard, shock! Who could have guessed it's exactly what it's sold as!

AFAIK there are no open standards for high-speed local (i.e. not some variety of ethernet) PHY interconnects. PCIe requires a license from PCI-SIG for any practical purposes (if you don't have a vendor ID, good luck having your device work anywhere!) or even just to read the spec! CXL is in a similar situation if you want to deploy a product using it. Synopsys HBI? Proprietary. Infinity Fabric? Can't even license it. And so on.