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Nvidia CEO Shares Company's CPU Strategy

Not x86, it's all about ARM now.

Nvidia's been rumored to be looking to get into the CPU business, perhaps in an effort to compete better against AMD with ATI in-house, as well as Intel. But on that front, Nvidia would require an x86 license; and the graphics maker isn't on the best terms with Intel at the moment.
Despite that, Nvidia still has a CPU strategy – one that involves a completely different market.
"Our CPU strategy is ARM," Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang told Cnet in an interview. "ARM is the fastest growing processor architecture in the world today. ARM supports (Google's) Android best. And Android is the fastest growing OS in the world today."
The end result is Tegra, an ARM CPU paired to Nvidia's GPU technology. The first generation Tegra is already on the market in every Microsoft Zune HD, but the second generation, dual-core Tegra 2 has yet to hit any commercial product.
As for Nvidia's chipset business, the license problems with Intel have effectively killed that division at the company.
"They (Intel) have disrupted our chipset business," Huang said. "The damage has been done. We've been out of the chipset business for well over a year, so if this got resolved we're not expecting to ramp back up the thousand engineers that we had working on chipsets."

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/ARM...tex,11081.html

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Zanimljivo.
Ukoliko uzmemo da ce u "buducnosti" desktop procesori ujedno imati i graficke jezgre "u sebi" i da ce vremenom graficka snaga takvih procesora biti sve veca i veca sto povlaci za sobom da se vise nece prodavati recimo najslabije i srednje (po snazi) graficke kartice vec ce u igri ostati oni najjaci modeli samo za entuzijaste - nvidia gubi utrku sa amd-om kad tad.
No, ako bi nvidia kupila recimo VIA-u, i dalje bi bila u "igri" (barem jos nekih 15 god. koliko via ima pravo na x86 procesore...). Izgleda da nista od toga...

No, ovako, nvidia se okrece "mobilnom" trzistu i tu trazi svoj spas, tj. da ostane u tehnoloskoj "igri". (osobno, mislim da je ovo vrlo dobra ideja -> broj mobitela i sta-ja-znam cega sto ce koristiti te ARM procesore ce stalno rasti )

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