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".
To view parent comment, click here.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
Member since:2005-11-10
Blah, blah, blah.
No amount of sour condescending retorts is going to change the fact that a person, who is unaware of the distinction between microarchitecture and ISA, is a tad out of place in trying to solve one of the biggest challenges facing the architectural and software communities.
There! With plenty of sentences and paragraphs for you to enjoy.
Getting back to topic. It seems that the direction that NVIDIA may be taking is towards including atom cores into their SOC designs. It seems Intel will be using TSMC to second source atoms, and they will be licensing atom IP cores to 3rd parties. I doubt NVIDIA has the resources (and the patience) to do a full IA CPU bring up, especially given the current economic situation.
Edited 2009-03-05 06:16 UTC
Member since:
2005-11-10
if you are unable to appreciate the distinction between microarchitecture and instruction set.
Chances are that you are a bit out of your league when tackling problems which are orders of magnitude more complex, like solving the parallel programing paradigm.
A current Core2 or i7 CPU is many things, but its microarchitecture could hardly be classified as a "dinosaur." Or maybe, the word dinosaur doesn't mean what you think it means :-)
Edited 2009-03-05 02:27 UTC