Nvidia Is Killing Its Beloved Shield TV Because It Had Too Much Memory
If there’s any one device that represents the Nvidia of ages past, it’s the Nvidia Shield TV set-top box, a TV streamer the company has promised to keep actively updated from now until eternity. It kept updating its device and introduced various form factors over the years, but the base box reigned supreme. It was designed as a quasi-gaming console, the one Nvidia longed to make but never did.
- ▪If there’s any one device that represents the Nvidia of ages past, it’s the Nvidia Shield TV set-top box, a TV streamer the company has promised to keep actively updated from now until eternity.
- ▪It kept updating its device and introduced various form factors over the years, but the base box reigned supreme.
- ▪It was designed as a quasi-gaming console, the one Nvidia longed to make but never did.
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If there’s any one device that represents the Nvidia of ages past, it’s the Nvidia Shield TV set-top box, a TV streamer the company has promised to keep actively updated from now until eternity. If we’re looking for a new symbol to describe how Team Green has changed from gaming group to AI monolith, Nvidia has declared it’s no longer planning to sell its base gaming-focused TV…
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