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Nvidia to make Arm-based PC chips in major new challenge to Intel

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Re: Nvidia to make Arm-based PC chips in major new challenge to Intel

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Post by bhouston »

Given how much I love my MacMini M2 Pro - its perfectly silent operation and its incredibly small form factor combined with great graphics performances, I can imagine that having similar machines available for Windows and Linux would be very attractive.

Re: Nvidia to make Arm-based PC chips in major new challenge to Intel

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Post by bhouston »

EternalUsenet wrote: post #2

I do wonder if we will see these chips available for purchase to install in standard form factor ATX style systems? This is something I haven’t seen Arm crack into yet.

I think ATX style machines are very niche. Gamers love them and 3D artsits, but outside of that I think no one wants them anymore. I think that ARM-compatibility for games in the near term is a hard sell (although Blender, Maya, Photoshop, Final Cut Pro have been ported to ARM for running on Apple chips.)

I think the market that NVIDIA should be chasing with the ARM CPUs + good GPUs is business machines. Our company is filled with very poor performing Window Surface devices - outside of those who insist on Macs this is what people get. Companies are spending a lot on these. And they desperately need better performance while also being cool with long battery life.

Re: Nvidia to make Arm-based PC chips in major new challenge to Intel

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Post by guerrilla »

I hope so. Then I can put some weird OS on it that nobody uses because I really miss the security-through-obscurity I got back in the day running Linux on PowerPC before either were popular. Nobody was going to bother writing shellcode for that shit back then :P

Re: Nvidia to make Arm-based PC chips in major new challenge to Intel

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Post by pseudosavant »

I hope these ARM chips are Apple-level ARM designs. Apple has an ARM license that allows them to completely design their own cores. Only Apple's ARM designs have cutting edge performance. Everyone else (Qualcomm, Samsung, etc) uses stock, or nearly stock, ARM designs off-the-shelf that, performance-wise, aren't at all competitive with AMD/Intel. I'd love a Surface Pro with an M1/M2 chip, but the Qualcomm ARM chips are dogs.

Re: Nvidia to make Arm-based PC chips in major new challenge to Intel

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Post by brucethemoose2 »

> Nvidia has quietly begun designing central processing units (CPUs) that would run Microsoft’s (MSFT.O) Windows operating system...

> Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.O) also plans to make chips for PCs with Arm technology...

> Qualcomm plans to reveal more details about a flagship chip..

(That would be the Nuvia core, I assume)

Really, just read the whole thing. Its a brief but juicy report.

Anyway, I wonder if Nvidia is going to make an SoC or a discrete CPU. Seems like an either-or proposition, as a big CPU with a small IGP (like AMD/Intel) doesn't make much sense for Nvidia.

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