Nvidia has confirmed that it will be combining GPGPUs with ARM 64-bit processors in future Tesla products.
In an article posted by InfoWorld, the company's chief technology officer for the Tesla product line, Steve Scott, was quoted saying, "Tegra is going to become GPU computing capable in the not-so-distant future. Sometime this decade we are also going to start bringing integrated CPUs and GPUs together in the Tesla line".
'Sometime this decade' is not exactly clear, but we would take a guess that Nvidia is shooting for a release prior to 2015.
Scott was referring to ARMv8 processors, recently announced as Cortex-A53 and A-57 models and a 2014 released date. However, Nvidia was not mentioned by ARM in a row of current ARMv8 licensees, which include AMD, Broadcom, Calxeda, HiSilicon, Samsung and STMicroelectronics. However, the emerging microserver market is an opportunity for a natural evolution of Nvidia's business. Combining Tesla with ARMv8 cores will allow the company to compete in a segment that will be crowded with industry heavyweights such as Samsung, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments - and Intel on the x86 side. Nvidia will also compete with its arch rival AMD in a new market.
The InfoWorld article pointed to Nvidia's Project Denver, which will be based on using the ARMv8 architecture in Nvidia products. According to ARM, the Cortex-A57 processor will be able to provide up to three times the performance of its current flagship, the 32-bit Cortex-A15 design.
That would take quite a while... x86-64 is still the most popular platform and I think it will stay this way for a long time.
Standards die hard. There's still a significant amount of software written for x86 compared to ARM, and business software tend to be the vast majority.
Not by a long shot. x86-64 is the most popular platform for laptops, desktops and servers. But by far the most popular computing platform is ARM.
There's 25 billion ARM processors produced to date, and over 16 million is shipped every single day.
Wonder how it'll compare to Qualcomm and Samsung's ARMv8 based chips when they're released...
Not me. I feel x86 will remain more powerful and eventually (as Intel tick-tock goes on) more efficient than ARM stuff.
Maybe ARM may occupy the lower end one day, maybe they get this stuff into consoles. PCs will remain x86 for a long, long while. Probably as long as they can keep the die shrinks happening.
It's an interesting idea, basically being able to have the interest of the gpu to be able to do what any computer system does or say do without is probably an interest within to have for a gpu solution in terms of computing.
Especially on interest to say within place of is that of what is probably an interest of computing rather with a gpu or cpu, why not have both in one?
Be like saying otherwise being able to run any application from just the say gpu instance for display only has point or purpose for such when on without has no place more for.
Arm processing essentially would almost cover the topic for given arm processing can consist of about anything to say of for.
Why have a processor on the interest of general computing computing any specific interest for its place of processing when an arm processor for a place of such rather within additional device holding or not can be placed for a use of such, without reliance of support, expansion, and/or extension systems??
Let alone with and/or on a system (seperate) that has a place of use to say for one.
It's a good one, but one that might not find alot of place for use to as such a system as to say.
there will be more competition on ARM world