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[brewin]

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NVIDIA IS MAKING a CPU, but the only questions are what kind of CPU, and how the heck is it going to do it. Making an X86 based CPU is not a trivial venture, and there are enough problems to make even a company with the engineering bandwidth of Nvidia cringe. Those problems are mainly called lawyers.

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Maybe they're designing a new architecture? Or licensing another, like Cell? Regardless, It'll be interesting to find out what Nvidia is cooking up to compete with AMD/ATI.

[GSG-9]

Personally I think this is just tires spinning because Nvidia is making the 4x4 chipset for AMD...just my opinion though.

[BlueScreenOfDeath]

i would think if they are designing something it would be a dedicated core for CPU's like Intel or AMD's line

[m.oreilly]

well, all i can say is AMD was not asleep at the wheel when they bought ATI...

[Christopholofigus]

That could be interesting...but then again Sun bought google or google bought sun (can't remember) and i thought for sure that there would be a Google OS out! Who knows huh?! We will have to wait to see what the egg hatches into.

[VROSA]

vrosa x64, on Oct 19 2006, 10:58 AM, said:

Nvidia at work on combined CPU with graphic on 65nm in 2008

By Fuad Abazovic: Thursday 19 October 2006, 13:22

WE MANAGED to confirm that Nvidia has started to develop a CPU.

Charlie wrote about the interesting implications of Nvidia's good fortune in acquiring some folk from Stexar, a company that was known for its X86 marchitectural expertise.

And now we hear that development is underway at Nvidia's just-announced Portland, Oregon, Design Center, where chip folk are beaving away on 45 nanometre designs.

The project should bear fruit sometime in 2008, as Nvidia prepares plans to compete with Intel and AMD on the blended graphic and CPU concept.

This is what OEMs want in 2008. Sixty-five or 45 nanometre processes make this possible and AMD and Intel are going to do it, so Nvidia doesn’t have much choice.

It seems Nvidia might remain a feisty player in the years to come, unless someone fanatically swallows it.

Things are certainly heating up.


Well, quite interesting news for me, lets see what future reserves !

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Christopholofigus, on Oct 25 2006, 02:29 AM, said:

That could be interesting...but then again Sun bought google or google bought sun (can't remember) and i thought for sure that there would be a Google OS out! Who knows huh?! We will have to wait to see what the egg hatches into.

There was supposed to be a google version linux.. Thats all I know

[brewin]

Christopholofigus, on Oct 25 2006, 01:29 AM, said:

That could be interesting...but then again Sun bought google or google bought sun (can't remember) and i thought for sure that there would be a Google OS out! Who knows huh?! We will have to wait to see what the egg hatches into.

Google and Sun only have a relatively small partnership where Google developers help out with Sun's open source software. But if you think about it, it would make sense for Google to buy Sun and instantly own all of their server products and operating systems. Assuming Google can afford them. They have Google Earth and Google Moon; they might as well have Google Sun.

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LOL, good joke brewin!!

[Christopholofigus]

brewin, on Oct 25 2006, 01:01 PM, said:

Google and Sun only have a relatively small partnership where Google developers help out with Sun's open source software. But if you think about it, it would make sense for Google to buy Sun and instantly own all of their server products and operating systems. Assuming Google can afford them. They have Google Earth and Google Moon; they might as well have Google Sun.

Ha! Great. Goooo Google. ummm, yeah. LOL