AMD is developing ARM CPUs too according to the same article but less details are available.
Comment on Reuters: Nvidia to make Arm-based PC chips in major new challenge to Intel
simple@lemm.ee 11 months ago
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.
misk@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
aniki@lemm.ee 11 months ago
[deleted]misk@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
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 ;)
frezik@midwest.social 11 months ago
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.
9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Why arm instead of risc-v though?
realharo@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Because Windows on ARM is already a thing with some momentum.
electromage@lemm.ee 11 months ago
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.
IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 11 months ago
Aren’t these for servers?
frezik@midwest.social 11 months ago
Microsoft wants other ARM laptop options for Windows than just Qualcomm.
ozymandias117@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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
greybeard@lemmy.one 11 months ago
NVIDIA wasn’t shy about this. They tried to buy ARM. They design the Tegra chip that is in the Switch.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
And the Switch is basically just a rebranded (… with shittier plastic) Nvidia Shield X1 or whatever the number was.
Jensen et al have very openly been making inroads with ARM devices for the better part of a decade at this point.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I had a tablet once, with an nVidia Tegra SOC. Once they were the fastest Arm chips around.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Yeah. I was actually really looking forward to the Shield X1 (or whatever it was) until it fell off the face of the earth for a few months and suddenly whatever the switch’s codename was had the exact same specs. Just a worse display, cheaper feeling plastic, and controller holders that break if you use them too much.
simple@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Just for market dominance I assume.
Yes, but that chip is old. It was already a bit outdated when the switch came out, and that was 2017.
greybeard@lemmy.one 11 months ago
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.
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.
hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
Nvidia’s ARM play has always been primarily in AI and vehicles. Tegra has a number of successors — just not in consumer devices.