Ars today questions the recent rumors that NVIDIA might be entering the x86 processor market and taking Intel on directly. The evidence claims come from industry rumors and the fact that NVIDIA is hiring up a lot of x86 talent including employees from Transmeta.
NVIDIA recently announced that it would be giving up its chipset work on Core and Nehalem series processors - which Apple use in their products - due to the ongoing litigation with Intel.
Bad NVIDIA chipsets had plagued Apple's MacBooks and other industry products requiring Apple to provide unprecedented 3-year warranty replacement on bad motherboards.
Apple has a strong relationship with NVIDIA, using their chipsets in most of their current Macintosh products. NVIDIA making x86 processors might lure Apple into changing processor providers, though unlikely. Ars speculates that any NVIDIA x86 processors would likely be low to mid-range, at least initially.
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Imagine if they used their multi-dozen core GPU experiance to make a massively parallel x86 CPU. It wouldn't be remotely as powerful core-for-core as a Core or Nehalem CPU, but get a heavily multi-threaded app (like SL is trying to pust towards) and it would be a screamer.
Would their x86 chips melt
Would their x86 chips melt like their GPUs?
Am I missing something? Why
Am I missing something? Why x86? Isn't the future 64-bit, and hypothetically in future years, 128? Would they be making an x86 for mobile devices and netbooks?
Do you realize that x86 is
Do you realize that x86 is also has 64-bit? aka x86-64 (AMD created) or IA64 (Intel's name for it).
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