Off-the-shelf ARM Cortex X5 cores
The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell-on-earth yarn that says Nvidia is using off-the-shelf ARM Cortex X5 cores to process its 2025 chip, all packed in along shiny new Blackwell GPU cores.
To make matters worse, Nvidia would use Intel's fabs, which might be the beginning of the end of x86.
The rumours are not that daft, as Nvidia has been snuggling up to MediaTek in making laptop reference designs. If the company can create laptops built around its own processors and GPUs, it would be a win, more so if it can also make inroads into the lower-end market.
The specs rumour comes from @XpeaGPU on X, which claims it will be a Cortex X5 CPU cluster with a Blackwell iGPU and sport LPDDR6 memory on the package. It also states it will be built using TSMC's N3P node, a claim quickly disputed by another fellow X rumour-monger, @Kepler_L2. They claim Nvidia will be using an Intel 3nm production process.
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Nvidia chips might have ARM doing the processing
30th May 2024, 08:05
Nvidia chips might have ARM doing the processing 
