Denver, Nvidia plans to challenge Intel PC processor market
Nvidia on Wednesday (1 / 5) in the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) announced the "Denver Plan" (Project Denver), will develop ARM-based processor to enter from the PC, servers, workstations and super computers to processor market.
In the "Denver Plan", Nvidia chip will be developed to integrate in a single ARM instruction set and the Nvidia GPU's high-performance processors. At the same time, the two companies also announced a strategic alliance, Nvidia will be the future ARM-based processor architecture, developed CPU core.
Over the years, Intel's X86 architecture leading PC market, and ARM architecture in the mobile phone market is king, gulf between the two technology market, do not conflict with each other. But with the convergence trend in the rise of mobile computing, Intel and ARM are also hoping to expand its market areas.
Intel is still no major gains in the mobile market, while ARM's attempt to enter the PC market because Microsoft could not have hindered progress. But now, as Microsoft has announced that its next Windows operating system will support the ARM architecture, which makes ARM camp with new development opportunities.
Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang told the media that this will be the industry's first high-performance computing market lock ARM processor. With Apple, Google, and Microsoft will support the ARM architecture, the market has completely changed the situation, this is the best time to development of ARM processor.