NVIDIA announces Project Denver ARM CPU for the desktop

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Soleron said:

Darc Requiem said:

Soleron said:
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That maybe true Soleron, but it' good that the Fusion will have a competitor from Nvidia. Unlike Intel, I think Nvidia will actually be able to produce a competent CPU/GPU combo. Let them go at it. It means lower prices for us on the consumer end.

It's not compatible with x86 Windows. I doubt any games or much commercial software will support it. If it was x86 I would be much more excited.

The ARM core does limit performance, because if they want to scale up to desktop-like per-core performance they can't do it by incrementally changing the core they have. It would need a complete redesign; ARM designs are just too slow for desktops.

with the next windows shipping with an ARM compatible version I imagine a lot of programs being recompiled to run on the platform, also there were rumours that ARM were working on the ability for ARM cores to execute x86 code anyway. 

And while ARM cores look weak on paper they are also small and power efficient so expect a Denver chip with as many as 8-16 cores in addition to a Nvidia GPU. Nvidia have also been working on getting x86 code running on CUDA cores so I wouldn't write it off just yet.