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Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer'

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623 points magicalhippo | 1 comments | 07 Jan 25 04:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source
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fweimer ◴[07 Jan 25 12:01 UTC] No.42621548[source]▶
If they end up actually shipping this, lots of people will buy these machines to get an AArch64 Linux workstation—even if they are not interested in AI or Nvidia GPUs.

At $3,000, it will be considerably cheaper than alternatives available today (except for SoC boards with extremely poor performance, obviously). I also expect that Nvidia will use its existing distribution channels for this, giving consumers a shot at buying the hardware (without first creating a company and losing consumer protections along the way).

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kllrnohj ◴[07 Jan 25 12:18 UTC] No.42621651[source]▶
> At $3,000, it will be considerably cheaper than alternatives available today

$3000 gets me a 64-core Altra Q64-22 from a major-enough SI today: https://system76.com/desktops/thelio-astra-a1-n1/configure

And of course if you don't care about the SI part, then you can just buy that motherboard & CPU directly for $1400 https://www.newegg.com/asrock-rack-altrad8ud-1l2t-q64-22-amp... with the 128-core variant being $2400 https://www.newegg.com/asrock-rack-altrad8ud-1l2t-q64-22-amp...

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1. fweimer ◴[07 Jan 25 18:10 UTC] No.42625402[source]▶
I had not seen the System76 systems before. They don't have distributors, and unlike the major OEMs, they don't take care of the customs details for intentional shipments. Prices for systems built with these older Ampere CPUs have come down at the local SIs as well (those that refuse to consumers), which I had not noticed before. Still the workstation form factor seems to be somewhat unique to System76 (unless, as you said, you build your own).

Still I expect the Nvidia systems will be easier to get, especially for (de jure) consumers.