NVIDIA to start making CPUs?
@ 2006/10/19now 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.
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.
Nvidia gave us SLI which forced ATI and Intel to give us Crossfire and while both are simply marketing fodder they bring us close to the original goal of a true dual core GPU which will be the future once the chipmakers WAKE UP.
We wouldn't have Conroe today if there weren't other options to compete with it and we have AMD to thank for this.
A monopoly is never a good thing in any business. not tomention the jobs created in Portland which is a beautiful city just an hour from some of the largest surf breaks on the West Coast and right now rents there are so cheap it's pathetic. It's actually a GREAT time to move to Portland Oregon one of the last vestiges of wilderness in the USA.
I'm seriousy considering moving there in the next year!