News Nvidia Tegra Xavier rides into the sunset as support for ARM- and Volta-based chip is pulled

[Admin]

Nvidia ends Linux support for its silicon that incorporated Arm cores and a Volta-based integrated GPU.

Nvidia Tegra Xavier rides into the sunset as support for ARM- and Volta-based chip is pulled : Read more

 

[LinuxDevice]

It is end of life for new features, e.g., which CUDA release is supported without Docker. Actual production and bug/security fixes still remain alive.

 

[williamcll]

If Nvidia stops selling SBC ARM chips then what is the new switch going to run on?

 

[abufrejoval]

Nvidia ends Linux support for its silicon that incorporated Arm cores and a Volta-based integrated GPU.

Nvidia Tegra Xavier rides into the sunset as support for ARM- and Volta-based chip is pulled : Read more

Volta was a GPGPU-only design aimed at ML, robotics and self-driving, not consumer gaming.

That doesn't make it "unimportant".

Of course its main advantage, the ability to run FP16 code at speed, turned out to be out of favor with the AI crowd rather quickly, because those needed range over precision and thus BF16 or other more proprietary formats.

It became outdated rather quickly, that's true. But it was an extremely important milestone for Nvidia and where they and AI are today.

At basically marks the turning point where GPU designs became compute-first, gaming-second where before it had always been the other way around.

And if you're lucky enough to find that your workload still fits on a V100, grab a used one on the cheap while you can. Be sure to read the fine print, though, because they need external fans.