Nvidia at work on combined CPU with graphics card?

Vikingod · Oct 19, 2006, 02:49 PM

Source: The INQ
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We managed to confirm that Nvidia has started to develop a CPU.

Charlie wrote about the interesting implications of Nvidia's good fortune in acquiring some folk from Stexar, a company that was known for its X86 marchitectural expertise.

And now we hear that development is underway at Nvidia's just-announced Portland, Oregon, Design Center, where chip folk are beaving away on 45 nanometre designs.

Erroneus · Oct 19, 2006, 03:58 PM

Has to be for the OEM / mobile / small devices market, doubt they could produce a cpu which actually could compete eg. Conroe.

Vikingod · Oct 19, 2006, 04:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Erroneus

Has to be for the OEM / mobile / small devices market, doubt they could produce a cpu which actually could compete eg. Conroe.

Agreed. while I think we will some day see the C/GPU, its a LONG way off.

Matth · Oct 19, 2006, 05:00 PM

More likely to compete with VIA/Cyrix than Intel^2 or ATI/AMD.

cadaveca · Oct 19, 2006, 05:01 PM

Consoles/ wifi devices like blackberry etc.

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