Damn, I called this a while ago. With Intel and AMD focusing on x86 and being behind on the competition, it makes so much sense that Nvidia would break into the processor space.
Also announcing this one day before the Qualcomm event is both funny and evil. Excited to see some good ARM laptops that aren’t Macbooks.
NVIDIA wasn’t shy about this. They tried to buy ARM. They design the Tegra chip that is in the Switch.
They tried to buy ARM.
Just for market dominance I assume.
They design the Tegra chip that is in the Switch.
Yes, but that chip is old. It was already a bit outdated when the switch came out, and that was 2017.
Just for market dominance I assume.
Almost certainly. I’m glad they failed to buy it. It would have been a mess in the long run, but clearly they have plans for ARM.
Yes, but that chip is old. It was already a bit outdated when the switch came out, and that was 2017.
Correct, but they do work with ARM already. I’m guessing they will be making the chip for the Switch 2, which will probably be out of date when it comes out in 2024, but it will be a more modern chip.
Nvidia’s ARM play has always been primarily in AI and vehicles. Tegra has a number of successors — just not in consumer devices.
AMD is developing ARM CPUs too according to the same article but less details are available.
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Oh, that would be nice. Just imagine the power of something like Apple M1 combined with ATI Radeon X1950 with that sweet Shader Model 3.0 support ;)
AMD will likely jump on ARM, too. They’re somewhat tied to the Intel architecture–x86-64 is their baby–but not as much as Intel themselves.
Why arm instead of risc-v though?
Because Windows on ARM is already a thing with some momentum.
Also, Nvidia has made ARM chips in the past.
Not nearly as mature, but I’d be shocked if they’re not working on it. It doesn’t make sense to talk about it at this time, still lots of buzz around ARM.
Aren’t these for servers?
Microsoft wants other ARM laptop options for Windows than just Qualcomm.
The primary reason the company I work for is using a QC chip over any other ARM offering is the GPU they bought from ATI. The CPU cores aren’t particularly interesting
If AMD or nVidia release a SoC, it would likely be a strong contender for our next design
Competition in the CPU space ♥♥♥
Didn’t they try this already with Tegra?
Hey, I’ve seen this one before
Hopefully they update the 4 year old Shield soon 😭
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Nvidia has quietly begun designing central processing units (CPUs) that would run Microsoft’s (MSFT.O) Windows operating system and use technology from Arm Holdings(O9Ty.F), , two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Microsoft’s plans take aim at Apple, which has nearly doubled its market share in the three years since releasing its own Arm-based chips in-house for its Mac computers, according to preliminary third-quarter data from research firm IDC.
At an event on Tuesday that will be attended by Microsoft executives, including vice president of Windows and Devices Pavan Davuluri, Qualcomm plans to reveal more details about a flagship chip that a team of ex-Apple engineers designed, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Executives at Microsoft have observed how efficient Apple’s Arm-based chips are, including with AI processing, and desire to attain similar performance, one of the sources said.
In 2016, Microsoft tapped Qualcomm to spearhead the effort for moving the Windows operating system to Arm’s underlying processor architecture, which has long powered smartphones and their small batteries.
Software developers have spent decades and billions of dollars writing code for Windows that runs on what is known as the x86 computing architecture, which is owned by Intel but also licensed to AMD.
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