With Google, Apple and Microsoft all throwing their weight behind ARM architecture, Nvidia has taken the opportunity at CES 2011 to reveal its Project Denver. NVIDIA President Jen-Hsun Huang claimed during his keynote that more ARM processors will ship in the next few years (2-5 yrs) than X86 has shipped ever. And thats exactly what NVIDIA is exploring with Denver.
NVIDIA would make CPU’s based on ARM that would be housed on the same chip as the NVIDIA GPU. NVIDIA wants to target everything from superphones to server / workstations with these chips. NVIDIA also demoed the first Tegra 2 powered smartphone (or superphone as they call it). This was the LG Optimus 2x.
Interestingly Microsoft demoed its next version of Windows platform running on a Tegra 2 architecture at its keynote, further strengthening its commitment to ARM architecture. Interesting times lie ahead in the platforms game, staty tuned!
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