Nvidia Not Sunsetting Tesla Kepler And Maxwell GPUs Just Yet
Switch chips have a very long technical and economic lives, considerably longer than that of a Xeon processor used in a server – something on the order of seven or eight years compared to three or four. As it turns out, the various GPUs used in Nvidia’s Tesla accelerators look like they, too, will have very long technical and economic lives.
Even after a new technology is introduced, sometimes the old one can be had at a much cheaper price and therefore continues to be a good price/performer even after it has been presumably obsoleted by an improved product. Its …
Nvidia Not Sunsetting Tesla Kepler And Maxwell GPUs Just Yet was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.