NVIDIA Is Reportedly on Track for a 2025 Launch with Its Arm-Based Consumer PC CPUs, Commercial Offerings Planned for 2026

[Peter_Brosdahl]

NVIDIA is reportedly on track to launch its Arm-Based PC processors in the next 24 months, with the first to arrive as early as next fall.

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[Grimlakin]

This will be an interesting few years with Intel on the decline and Nvidia entering the CPU market.

 

[Soulstorm brew]

Is this just carrying on from Tegra?
If I remeber they were power hungry.
let's see how these work out.

 

[Peter_Brosdahl]

AMD probably doesn't have anything to fear, at least for now but with MediaTek (Dimensity), Qualcomm (Snapdragon Elite), and now NVIDIA closing in, not to mention Apple and its M-series chips, Intel needs to step up its game quickly or else there will be more nails in the coffin within 12-24 months. Arm-based Windows is still a ways off in terms of x86 performance but that might not be an issue for too much longer as it continues to evolve. The clock is ticking.

 

[Brian_B]

The entire linchpin here is Windows supporting ARM, and how well Microsoft can maintain that translation layer while systems straddle between x86 and ARM.

Apple has been able to do it fairly seamlessly, several times in fact, but Microsoft hasn't been able to do it yet.

Maybe nVidia and others will put resources behind making that happen, but given that all these other manufacturers are relying on Microsoft to provide an OS - that's gonna be the make it or break it point.

 

[Denpepe]

entire linchpin here is Windows supporting ARM, and how well Microsoft can maintain that translation layer while systems straddle between x86 and ARM.

They should focus on getting x86 back decent for their users b4 going on an extra route

 

[Brian_B]

They should focus on getting x86 back decent for their users b4 going on an extra route

This is kinda funny.

You are absolutely right. Microsoft should be focusing on their user experience. I don't really know what Microsoft does anymore besides somehow make money with Azure, which I still don't really understand. Every change they seem to have brought to Windows/Office in the past .. oh, I don't know, 15 years, have been regressions rather than progression. Or maybe I'm just yelling at kids to get off my lawn, i don't know.

It's the hardware industry (less Intel/AMD) that's desperate for them to come up with that bridge/compatibility layer. Microsoft doesn't have a whole lot of skin in that - people aren't going to migrate away from Windows short of something paradigm-changing happening. If Microsoft decides to stick with x86, the PC industry will as well. If Microsoft decides to shift to ARM, so will the PC industry. Heck - Microsoft could come out and announce today they are going to move everything to RISC V for Windows 12 and I bet you'd start seeing RISC V hardware on the shelves in less than a year.