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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 4th Mar 2009 17:19 UTC, submitted by poundsmack

NVIDIA's aspirations to enter the general purpose processor market may never have been clearly spelled out by the company before, but it was getting more and more obvious as each week passed by. Now, it's pretty much official: NVIDIA says it's not a question of "if", but "when".

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Comment by jjmckay

by jjmckay on Wed 4th Mar 2009 19:11 UTC

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2005-11-11

We could use the competition with another mainstream/performance CPU option.

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by fithisux on Thu 5th Mar 2009 09:19 in reply to "Comment by jjmckay"

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2006-01-22

PPC64 and ARM are already there. Why bother making x86 processors? MIPS64 is another viable option. I don't understand them. IBM can provide them processors instead of producing new.

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RE[2]: Comment by jjmckay

by rjamorim on Fri 6th Mar 2009 11:22 in reply to "RE: Comment by jjmckay"

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2005-12-05

PPC64 and ARM are already there. Why bother making x86 processors?

Because 90%+ of desktop users still demand Windows compatibility. Particularly the Nvidia fans (I.E, gamers)

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