NVIDIA lost contract with China for the supply of video cards for 10 million Linux-computers
Apparently, the scandalous story that broke out in connection with the sacramental opinion of Linus Torvalds regarding the support of NVIDIA video cards in Linux, received a curious but unpleasant continuation for the company this week.
Resource Bride side of news (which was previously not seen in the spread of rumors) claims, referring to sources in Beijing, that NVIDIA some time ago signed a contract with the Chinese government for the supply of video cards that were supposed to be installed on computers running Linux. The volume of supplies was estimated as quite significant - it was necessary to provide each of the planned 100,000 Chinese schools with 100-150 computers; Moreover, the computers should have worked on Loongson processors of local production, while the video card should have been supplied by NVIDIA - as a result, the architecture was to turn out, whose code name in China sounds like G80.
In the end, after unexplained circumstances, it suddenly turned out that NVIDIA refused to release drivers for the architecture described above. Someone from NVIDIA questioned the financial competence of the Chinese government and spoke in the sense that his company is a large American organization and recompiling Linux drivers would cost too much money for China.
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This statement was considered exhaustive and was perceived as a refusal to cooperate with China.
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Resource Bride side of news (which was previously not seen in the spread of rumors) claims, referring to sources in Beijing, that NVIDIA some time ago signed a contract with the Chinese government for the supply of video cards that were supposed to be installed on computers running Linux. The volume of supplies was estimated as quite significant - it was necessary to provide each of the planned 100,000 Chinese schools with 100-150 computers; Moreover, the computers should have worked on Loongson processors of local production, while the video card should have been supplied by NVIDIA - as a result, the architecture was to turn out, whose code name in China sounds like G80.
In the end, after unexplained circumstances, it suddenly turned out that NVIDIA refused to release drivers for the architecture described above. Someone from NVIDIA questioned the financial competence of the Chinese government and spoke in the sense that his company is a large American organization and recompiling Linux drivers would cost too much money for China.
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This statement was considered exhaustive and was perceived as a refusal to cooperate with China.
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/146424/
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