How come nvidia had nothing to show at Computex??

[piesquared]

Was NVidia even there?? Have they run out of products (or in Titanzzzz's case, vapourware), to show off? Not even a mention of anything NV it seems. What gives??

 

[Kenmitch]

Ducking for cover after the TitanZ fiasco most likely.

 

[Cloudfire777]

They are there but doesnt have anything revolutionary to show off hence why media give them very little coverage

http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2013/06/04/nvidia-computex-demo-room/

Notebooks OEMs that are there are doing the marketing for Nvidia regarding mobile GPUs. Mostly rebrands anyway (and some Maxwell`s GT 840M, GTX 850M/860M)

 

[OCGuy]

Didn't they win a Computex Best Choice award, breaking a record for most consecutive years?

Certainly they sent someone to accept it.....

 

[KaRLiToS]

GK110 is 2 years old.

Nothing to show off, but they have something to hide though ... a dual GK110 failure.

 

[Keysplayr]

No, this thread wasn't a set up at all.

 

[OCGuy]

Nothing to show off, but they have something to hide though ... a dual GK110 failure.

I don't know, I think powering the control screen of the next ship to take NASA astronauts into space is pretty cool.

http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2014/06/03/spacex-brings-tegra/

 

[Silverforce11]

I heard ICs used in space are ancient obsolete tech, on very old manufacturing nodes (high nm) because anything on a small node with fast transistors & high performance will be very prone to interference from cosmic rays...

They use to fly the shuttle with Texas Instrument calculators, essentially.

 

[Kenmitch]

I don't know, I think powering the control screen of the next ship to take NASA astronauts into space is pretty cool.

http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2014/06/03/spacex-brings-tegra/

Musk told Ars that, like the Tesla S’ touch screen, Nvidia SoCs will power the graphics on the Dragon V2 (although those chips won’t power the rest of the systems on the spaceship, Musk clarified, laughing).

It's nothing more than a touch interface involvement. It's not like the fate of those onboard lives are in the hands of NVidia.

 

[Keysplayr]

So basically, it's nothing. I wonder what they use for their CPUs.

 

[Kenmitch]

So basically, it's nothing. I wonder what they use for their CPUs.

Where's Idontcare as I'm pretty sure he'd have a good idea.

Teaser till somebody in the know comes along.

http://www.cpu-galaxy.at/article/cpu_in_space.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_RAD6000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAD750

http://www.cpushack.com/space-craft-cpu.html

 

[OCGuy]

It's nothing more than a touch interface involvement. It's not like the fait of those onboard lives are in the hands of NVidia.

True. It certainly isn't as interesting as a redundant programming interface, but still worth a read.

 

[Kenmitch]

True. It certainly isn't as interesting as a redundant programming interface, but still worth a read.

It did make me search for cpus in space. The reads there are far more interesting to me.

 

[Silverforce11]

It did make me search for cpus in space. The reads there are far more interesting to me.

Yup, its amazing how slow the CPUs are run at, often on very old nodes, to prevent damage from cosmic rays. So the engineers get so much out of so little processing available to them.

 

[f1sherman]

They let their partner brag about it:

UBISOFT® AND NVIDIA TEAM UP ON ASSASSIN’S CREED® UNITY, FAR CRY® 4, THE CREW™ AND TOM CLANCY’S THE DIVISION™

Say hello to my little friend: NVIDIA's Tom Petersen announced a Titan Z giveaway

 

[Bateluer]

Not much to show off when they're still using 2 year old core designs on an extremely mature manufacturing process.

 

[tviceman]

Ubisoft is such a terrible dev to partner up with. Between uplay and the generally horrible performance their games have on PC, I'd rather see Nvidia tie the knot with a more consistent develope, and one where they might put pressure on getting PC releases (2k, ahem rockstar).

 

[NTMBK]

Say hello to my little friend: NVIDIA's Tom Petersen announced a Titan Z giveaway

Probably only way they'll get rid of those overpriced turkeys.

 

[3DVagabond]

I was expecting G-Sync production models on exhibit.

 

[BF04]

I don't know, I think powering the control screen of the next ship to take NASA astronauts into space is pretty cool.

http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2014/06/03/spacex-brings-tegra/

You know darn well that when the capsule drops back to earth, they will be playing Titanfall on it

 

[BrightCandle]

As far as I know the Shuttle is still on 80386's which is radiation hardened as its actual mission CPU, which is fast enough for the basic control of the aircraft for take off and landing.

The thing to understand is that aircraft and shuttles have an avionics bay. This can contain quite a lot of computers in general, all serving different functions. Some might be managing the display output and others the engine control or in the case of the shuttle we have a landing and take off auto pilot mission computer that is also calculating controlled burns for orbital interceptions. The black box is another example of one of these avionics boxes, the main difference obviously being rather than computing resources its mostly the hard fire proof coating and storage and accurate timing mechanisms internally.

So the fact that Nvidia has Tegra running the control screen is actually quite significant. That is safety critical aspect of the shuttle and it would be classed as risk class 4 or SIL 1 component of the shuttle (the highest risk level needing the most stringent of testing). Input and output control is not something that doesn't matter, its absolutely critical and suggests Tegra with appropriate hardening is a very reliable processor. It takes quite a lot of computing power to draw screens and even more to do it in a safety critical way.

Not very interesting for most people here but I find the inclusion of such a processor in the capsule interesting.

 

[Wild Thing]

I was expecting G-Sync production models on exhibit.

This ^

 

[Mand]

I was expecting G-Sync production models on exhibit.

The monitor partners are the ones presenting them, it seems. This is the Acer 4k w/ G-Sync.

http://www.techspot.com/news/56990-eyes-on-with-acers-g-sync-enabled-4k-monitor-at-computex.html

 

[Kenmitch]

As far as I know the Shuttle is still on 80386's which is radiation hardened as its actual mission CPU, which is fast enough for the basic control of the aircraft for take off and landing.

The thing to understand is that aircraft and shuttles have an avionics bay. This can contain quite a lot of computers in general, all serving different functions. Some might be managing the display output and others the engine control or in the case of the shuttle we have a landing and take off auto pilot mission computer that is also calculating controlled burns for orbital interceptions. The black box is another example of one of these avionics boxes, the main difference obviously being rather than computing resources its mostly the hard fire proof coating and storage and accurate timing mechanisms internally.

So the fact that Nvidia has Tegra running the control screen is actually quite significant. That is safety critical aspect of the shuttle and it would be classed as risk class 4 or SIL 1 component of the shuttle (the highest risk level needing the most stringent of testing). Input and output control is not something that doesn't matter, its absolutely critical and suggests Tegra with appropriate hardening is a very reliable processor. It takes quite a lot of computing power to draw screens and even more to do it in a safety critical way.

Not very interesting for most people here but I find the inclusion of such a processor in the capsule interesting.

The launch looks to be a couple years away still....It is interesting I guess.

Two years is a long time in the hardware world so it's hard to say if it'll actually be used at that time.

The monitor partners are the ones presenting them, it seems. This is the Acer 4k w/ G-Sync.

http://www.techspot.com/news/56990-eyes-on-with-acers-g-sync-enabled-4k-monitor-at-computex.html

Maybe to move some TitanZ's they should include a G-Syn monitor for free....There looks to be plenty of markup on them so I'd think they could do it. Maybe not a 4k offering tho.

 

[exar333]

Showing nothing is preferable to bringing-out a cardboard card though, right?

*ducks for cover*