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nvidia dgx spark?

also, system76 has one: https://system76.com/desktops/thelio-astra-a1.1-n1/configure

also, dell: https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/desktop-computers/dell-pro-m...

HP is coming soon, will be called `ZGX Nano AI Station` apparently

Also lenovo: https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/workstations/thinkstation-p-s...

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All of those use the same nVidia chip and the same nVidia provided Linux distro. Personally I'd be wary of spending $3500+ on a system that relies on nVidia support. They previously released an AI focused SBC, the Jetson Nano, that shipped with a custom distro based on the already aging Ubuntu 18.04, then abandoned support for it after a few years. All the dependencies required to run ML/AI stuff became outdated, and the hardware is now basically useless. It's possible to run mainline Linux on it, but you can't do anything with the GPU since that requires a special one-off driver that never got upstreamed.

> All of those use the same nVidia chip and the same nVidia provided Linux distro

The system76 one uses an ampere chip, but a discrete nvidia card; so not quite the same.

Generally I agree, I do not mix nvidia/linux. The point is that arm workstations are clearly being produced by many different vendors at this point.

Thanks for pointing that out, I must have skipped over the system76 link. You're right that besides Apple, nVidia and Ampere also make viable ARM workstation chips.

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