nVidia surprised everyone at CES today by announcing that it will be making an ARM-based processor for high-performance computing, aimed at desktops and servers. ARM is a CPU instruction set already used in most new mobile device processors today, like the Snapdragon, Hummingbird and Tegra 2 used in Android phones and tablets. Now, nVidia, until now producer of only graphics processors, is going to be the first to use this architecture in desktop PCs and Servers, a market dominated by the ancient and inefficient x86 instruction set used in processors made mostly by Intel and AMD.

Microsoft today also announced that it's next version of Windows will run on ARM based systems, which is crucial for nVidia's success.

This announcement breaks open the CPU world for the ARM instruction set and for a new challenger, nVidia. Where other companies have failed, this seems to be the start of an epic battle between massive corporations changing the entire playing field for computer processors.

Here's an official post from nVidia

"high-performance computing, aimed at desktops and servers" Hmm... This might be a good thing. Windows on ARM? Will MS make an emulator to run x86 apps like apple did with PPC, or will it run ARM apps only?

Good point. Considering Apple could do it, hopefully Microsoft will too. It's for their own good, backwards compatibility is one of the things keeping certain products alive in the business world.

4 threads by Ge64 today T_T

(This post was last modified: 06/01/2011 12:06 AM by Silvertie.)

(05/01/2011 07:05 PM)ProperBritish Wrote:  

(05/01/2011 07:01 PM)Barcelona Wrote:  you post new threads alot

post something useful please

this thread is interesting cut him some slack

I can't help but notice. But you always seem to post something against dark_mirage <_<

Windows 8 on Nvidia ARM CPUs? Sounds good to me.