Tudor Brown - President of ARM - recalls with delight the nVidia Tegra platform. He is very proud to present the chip, made by nVidia, and discusses the possibility of repeating this success, this time with ARM multi-core designs.The major argument for ARM is in terms of cost. Your average ARM processor is sold for $20 by its manufacturer; then there is Intel with its Atom at $40. Apparently nVidia has seen the light, and recognises the benefit of these very economic and power efficient processors.
nVidia's strategy is fairly simple: the CPU should act as the GPU's coprocessor, and the majority of intensive operations must be handled by the GPU. Time will tell if this strategy pays off... In any case, should we really mourn the potential emergence of a 3rd major player in the x86 market?
*literal translation from Adanorm's French; may or may not make any sense whatsoever, all rights reserved KayCorp PLC.
Source: Fudzilla
KaySL
On: 11/17/09
