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Nvidia Licences ARM Architecture

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/NVIDIA-Announces-Project-iw-377729072.html?x=0&.v=1

NVIDIA announced today 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 under the internal codename "Project Denver," this initiative features an NVIDIA® CPU running the ARM instruction set, which will be fully integrated on the same chip as the NVIDIA GPU.

This new processor stems from a strategic partnership, also announced today, in which NVIDIA has obtained rights to develop its own high performance CPU cores based on ARM's future processor architecture.

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Nvidia working together with Microsoft to create an ARM-based alternative to X86 for the desktop? Timing makes it sure seem like it.