Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Google Needs to buy Nvidia (If they let them).

It's no secret, I'm a Nvidia fan, but disregarding that I say Google needs to buy Nvidia. Nvidia would give Google a strategic advantage in pretty much every part of their company. Here's a list of reasons why I think Google needs to buy Nvidia.

Google uses computers a lot



He's Using a Computer too
The obvious thing is that Google uses computers a lot. All of their employees have laptops, cell phones, some have desktops, and the company has servers that they use to handle request from billions of people each year. If Google is able to produce the computer GPUs for their employees, servers and mobile devices they would all together spend less money. 



Nvidia's servers easily outperform Google's


Incredibly powerful server tech
Just recently I read an article stating that Nvidia in conjunction with Stanford developed a neural network that surpassed Google's with merely 16 servers. Sure you may see that as a whatever thing, but keep in mind that Google used 1000 servers for their neural network. That's a big difference. Nvidia's methods are cheaper than Google's and more power efficient.  Nvidia's GPUs has up to 3000 cores within them. Basically each core can be used for parallel computing, therefore the server is able to add another 1000 processes into a server with ease. 

Google already is producing phones


The Moto X
Google is already producing phones with their consumer hardware company Motorola. They've recently been emphasizing on GPUs for their products, and Nvidia happens to be very good at it. Also, if Google creates phone processors custom tailored to their devices, they would have a greater deal of perfection within their devices.


Nvidia is filled with computer hardware geniuses


Looks fun to work there
Google is made of software geniuses, while Nvidia is filled with hardware geniuses. I can fairly say that Google has been pretty bad at creating low leveled software. Since Motorola became part of the company, Google has been able to speed up Android's kernel development by a lot. It shows off with the performance and battery life increases with Android 4.3. With Nvidia, they would be able to advance low level software further and faster compared to before. When you see things like DirectTouch coming from Nvidia, you really begin to see how far these Nvidia can go. Google needs to get a piece of the action.

Can quickly design chips for anything


If Google has an idea, they can easily get a chip designed between Motorola and Nvidia in no time, prototype a device with the chip they design, make quick modifications, and deploy products much faster than any of their competition (until you look at Samsung). 

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