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Nvidia almost produced an x86 CPU to rival AMD and Intel, but was forced to move to Arm due to ‘certain legal issues’

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  • Nvidia’s Project Denver began as x86 but transitioned to Arm
  • Insider reports legal constraints drove Nvidia’s pivot
  • The Arm-based Project Denver CPU debuted in 2011

During a technical session at the recent SC24 event, Dave Ditzel, founder of Esperanto Technologies, offered some fascinating insights into Nvidia’s early server processor efforts.

According to HPCwire, Ditzel, who was previously CEO of Transmeta, revealed that Nvidia’s first server CPU, Project Denver, initially started as an x86 CPU but transitioned to Arm due to legal constraints.

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