NVIDIA CEO dismisses X86 development rumors

Jen-Hsun Huang, the CEO of NVIDIA has dismissed rumors that NVIDIA was working on an X86 chip (an Intel-compatible processor). His strategy is to continue using NVIDIA processors to accelerate all kinds of computing tasks (graphics or not), on every platforms: from supercomputers to handheld devices.

That didn’t seem to convince market Analyst Doug Freedman from Broadpoint AMTech who thinks that “Nvidia could become a supplier of x86 CPUs by necessity, perhaps in the next 12 months”. Right…

If NVIDIA had an X86 product that could be competitive in a multi-billion dollar business that is

actually many times its own size, why would the company enter that market “by necessity”? And whether it doesn’t have a competitive product, why enter at all? That’s nonsense. It’s not as if NVIDIA was going to say “damn, we *really need* to beat Intel now” and pull an X86 chip that will beat Core i7 or Atom from its… pocket.

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