NVIDIA Licenses ARM Architecture to Build Next-Generation Processors

By DE Editors

NVIDIA has announced that it plans to build high-performance ARM-based CPU cores, designed to support future products ranging from personal computers and servers to workstations and supercomputers.

Known as "Project Denver," this initiative features an NVIDIA CPU running the ARM instruction set, which the company says will be fully integrated on the same chip as the NVIDIA GPU.

This new processor stems from a strategic partnership, in which NVIDIA has obtained rights to develop its own high-performance CPU cores based on ARM's future processor architecture. In addition, NVIDIA licensed ARM's current Cortex-A15 processor for its future-generation Tegra mobile processors.

"ARM is the fastest-growing CPU architecture in history," says Jen-Hsun Huang, president and chief executive officer of NVIDIA. "This marks the beginning of the Internet everywhere era, where every device provides instant access to the Internet, using advanced CPU cores and rich operating systems. ARM's pervasiveness and open business model make it the perfect architecture for this new era. With Project Denver, we are designing a high-performing ARM CPU core in combination with our massively parallel GPU cores to create a new class of processor."

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Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.