EXCLUSIVE: Nvidia & AMD to make ARM-based PC CPUs to compete Intel x86 CPUs and Apple ARM CPUs by 2025

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Exclusive: Nvidia to make Arm-based PC chips in major new challenge to Intel

Nvidia dominates the market for AI computing chips. Now it is coming after Intel’s longtime stronghold.

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NVIDIA’s push into the consumer CPU market NVIDIA, as reported by Reuters, is discreetly in the process of designing new chips tailored for personal computers, with the aim of challenging the well-established CPU market. Sources familiar with the matter have informed Reuters that NVIDIA is...

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NVIDIA & AMD Planning To Launch Arm-Based CPUs For PCs, To Tackle Intel & Apple By 2025

NVIDIA & AMD are planning to launch CPUs based on the Arm architecture and will be targeting client (consumer) PCs by 2025.

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I was been waited for Nvidia x86 CPU for very long time but that didnt happened because Intel did not wanted to give Nvidia x86 license to designed and manufactured x86 CPUs. Now Nvidia and AMD are developing ARM CPUs and ARM motherboards that will launch by 2025 to compete with Intel x86 CPUs, x86 PCs and Apple ARM Macs. I was blew away really very impressed with Apple ARM M2 Max CPU booted MacOS ran Cyberpunk 2077 x86 Windows version smoothly at Ultra graphics settings used Apple Game Porting Toolkit translated x86 code to ARM code plus converted DirectX 12 to Metal on the fly.

2025 will be really very interesting year for Nvidia to take consumer CPU marketshare away from Intel, AMD and Apple for the first time. it will be interesting to watch Nvidia ARM CPU launch event with Jensen demostrated ARM CPU booted Windows 12 ARM with next generation Blackwell RTX 5090 run Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty x86 Windows version at Overdrive settting with Path Tracing on the fly with Nvidia ARM x86 translation software in background.

I probably going to keep x86 desktop, switch x86 Intel laptop to Nvidia ARM laptop and hopefully switch Surface Pro 6 Intel tablet to Surface Pro Nvidia ARM tablet.

So for AMD, they probably will launch Zen 6 CPUs with both x86 and ARM versions.

 

[HACO]

While it's always good to have another competitor, it will probably not be all that great for the consumer. Nvidia will likely produce M1/M2-style packages, as in, CPU, GPU and RAM bundles that are not upgradable. This is already what they do on their server CPU/GPU combos. They will also not be cheap, I expect them to follow Apple's pricing.

This has proven to be incredibly successful for Apple, Qualcomm will be doing the same and if Nvidia achieves success too, you can be sure AMD and Intel will follow too.

 

[Grim5]

I imagine at first both AMD and Nvidia ARM CPUs will power thin and light devices and not be used for gaming but we'll see how it goes. That is after all where ARM sees most benefit vs x86, performance efficiency at low wattages and not overall brute performance

 

[jigger]

People don’t consume ARM CPU’s they must be forced upon them. Apple are ARM now.

 

[Nasher]

Yea ARM CPUs are integrated components, you can't upgrade them, install custom coolers etc like AMD and Intel CPUs. So, inferior tech for a desktop or gaming machine

You buy the device and you're stuck with that spec until you buy a whole new one.

 

[Zarax]

Well, if Nvidia can charge over $1000 for a GPU why shouldn't they try the same for a CPU?
In their reasoning, they're leaving money on the table!

 

[Hotwired]

Yea ARM CPUs are integrated components, you can't upgrade them, install custom coolers etc like AMD and Intel CPUs. So, inferior tech for a desktop or gaming machine

You buy the device and you're stuck with that spec until you buy a whole new one.

AMD and Intel sell their silicon for sockets or embedding, it's a packaging choice.

No one(?) has cared to make a socket for ARM cpus but what's stopping them. It's just electrical connections.

 

[jigger]

AMD and Intel sell their silicon for sockets or embedding, it's a packaging choice.

No one(?) has cared to make a socket for ARM cpus but what's stopping them. It's just electrical connections.

A few people have made attempts. Not with much success or adoption though.

 

[HACO]

Yea ARM CPUs are integrated components, you can't upgrade them, install custom coolers etc like AMD and Intel CPUs. So, inferior tech for a desktop or gaming machine

You buy the device and you're stuck with that spec until you buy a whole new one.

This has nothing to do with ISA.

We already have socketed and upgradeable ARM CPUs, you can buy them today if you want to. Here's a Gigabyte and Supermicro motherboards for them. They support every feature that Intel/AMD platforms do:
https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/motherboard/r12spd-a
https://www.gigabyte.com/Enterprise/Server-Motherboard/MP72-HB0-rev-30

How they are packaged is completely a business decision, has nothing to do with tech.

AMD and Intel sell their silicon for sockets or embedding, it's a packaging choice.

No one(?) has cared to make a socket for ARM cpus but what's stopping them. It's just electrical connections.

They exist and are popular in the server market. They've grown from less than 1% in 2019 to over 7% now. They're not there in the consumer market outside of Apple because the software side of thing has lagged behind on Windows, but the gap is closing down, at least to the point that Nvidia and AMD are considering it.