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NVIDIA announces Project Denver ARM CPU for the Desktop
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Nothing new. Acorn Archimedes desktop PCs used ARM based CPUs. Acorn RISC Machine = Advanced RISC Machine = ARM
In mid-1990s, Advanced Computing Environment(ACE) group attempted to replace X86 PC standard with non-X86 CPUs e.g. MIPS, Alpha, ARM. That adventure was failure.

Notice how tiny is AMD Bobcat's X86 decoders.
In terms of transisiors packing engineering skills, NVIDIA and Intel has yet to match AMD(ATI).
AMD Radeon HD 5800(2.1billion transisiors, 334mm^2) and 6800(1.7billion transisiors, 255mm^2)'s die sizeis still smaller than NVIDIA's Geforce GTX460 (1.95billion transisiors 367mm^2).
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From http://www.anandtech.com/show/2911/2
NVIDIA Tegra 2 has die size of 49mm^2 and ARM Cortex A9 occupy around 10% of the total die area i.e. 4.9mm^2. AMD Bobcat (Out of Order, TSMC 40 nm) has 4.6mm^2, which is already striking distance of ARM Cortex A9 (Out of Order, TSMC 40 nm).
AMD Ontario,400 million transisiors/ 74mm^2 = 5.4 million transisiors per mm^2
NVIDIA Tegra 2, 260 million transisiors/ 49mm^2 = 5.3 million transisiors per mm^2
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AMD Radeon HD 5800, 6.287 million transisiors per mm^2
AMD Radeon HD 6800, 6.67 million transisiors per mm^2
NVIDIA Geforce GTX460, 5.31 million transisiors per mm^2
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AMD easily beat NVIDIA in transisiors per mm^2.
Benchmarks between ARM Cortex A9 vs Intel Atom from http://greenm3.typepad.com/.a/6a00e54f92c99e88340133ed275c68970b-piboth are about the same.
We know AMD Bobcat murders Intel Atom. AMD Ontario uses similar GPU core as Radeon HD 54X0's 80 SPUs. AMD Radeon HD 6400 uses 160 SPUs.
AMD plans to rival NVIDIA Tegra 2's 49 mm^2 size with AMD 40 SPU equiped APU i.e. replace 80 SPU GPU.
stop being a fanboy that amount of reply proves that youre concerned
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