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This makes sense. Most of the Jetson/Xavier/Nano boards already use a Carmel ARMv8 chip. I just hope this spurs more development in ARMv8. Currently the majority of ARM is ARMv7 (smartphones and Raspi).

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I think it's more about having CPU IP more than what CPU IP they have used in Jetson/Xavier to this point (though it is a helping factor). HPC also loves ARM these days and nvidia makes huge cash on that already.

Smartphones have largely been ARMv8 for the last 5 years. Raspberry Pi is as well these days.

Raspberry Pi 4 uses ARMv8 according to Wikipedia: the ARM Cortex-A72.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi#Processor

Pi 3 and the V1.2 revision of the Pi 2 were ARMv8 too (Cortex-A53).

edit: also re smartphones, Android SoCs started to move to v8 CPU cores 5 years ago, in the Nexus 5X/Pixel 1 generation.

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