Nvidia Not Sunsetting Tesla Kepler And Maxwell GPUs Just Yet - Artificial Intelligence Online

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 economic life outlives its technical life in this regard, and it is not obsoleted instantly (often to the frustration of its creator, which wants to sell the shiny new stuff). But sometimes this is in fact the plan.