This is ambitious future, but should make the tablet, smart phone landscape all the better.
Anandtech said:NVIDIA provided some more details on the announcement. Project Denver is targeted at everything from PCs to HPC/servers. This is completely a high end play going after the x86 stronghold. Project Denver ties in completely with Microsoft's announcement to bring Windows 8 to ARM next year.
Wow, wasn't expecting this today. It is the biggest hardware announcement in years IMO. Will be interesting to see the details.
Couple this with todays announcement that Windows 8 will feature ARM support, and begun the tech wars have.
After watching the sandy bridge talks about IGP and such, i couldnt help but thinking about an integrated Nvidia or AMD GPU, with Nvidia about to enter the x86 market do you think we could see Nvidia ARM mixed with some Nvidia GPU?
After watching the sandy bridge talks about IGP and such, i couldnt help but thinking about an integrated Nvidia or AMD GPU, with Nvidia about to enter the x86 market do you think we could see Nvidia ARM mixed with some Nvidia GPU?
So this chip should be able to run Windows 8, Chrome, iOS and one would suspect Linux as well. It's amazing how fast these markets can turn around. NVIDIA could be bigger than Intel in less than a decade.
How does this turn around anything?So this chip should be able to run Windows 8, Chrome, iOS and one would suspect Linux as well. It's amazing how fast these markets can turn around. NVIDIA could be bigger than Intel in less than a decade.
How does this turn around anything?
There are exactly ZERO applications for an ARM Windows.
There are exactly ZERO facts which support the believe that ARM/Nvidia can deliver a high performance CPU that is competitive to modern x86-64 CPUs.
The fastest ARM CPUs today are many times slower than low-end x86 CPUs and can't even address more than ~2.5 GByte of RAM!
There are exactly ZERO applications for an ARM Windows.
It will still be several times slower than low-end x86-64 CPUs.
Well this what ARM is claiming for their Smartphone line-up. (The ARM A15 listed there is only a 1-1.5 Ghz version)
It will be interesting to see how close the actual CPUs come to those claims. ~100% IPC increase (between A9 and A15) sounds pretty amazing to me.
That's only because the smartphone market emerged.How long did it take the iPhone to hit 100,000+ applications? The tech market can and often does turn on a dime.
It will still be several times slower than low-end x86-64 CPUs.
That's only because the smartphone market emerged.
We are talking about complex software here, not some worthless garbage apps which comprise to 95% of this number.
5% is still 5000 good apps.
Besides there seems to be an emerging tablet/nettop/smart TV market.
This CPU does not have to beat the i7 it merely has to compete with the i3.