Earlier this year, NVIDIA announced the "Project Denver" and decided to develop a high-performance general-purpose processor compatible with the ARM instruction set. Last year, it also announced the next two generations of GPU architecture, codenamed "Kepler" and "Maxwell". The "Kepler" architecture GPU with 28nm process is expected to debut at the end of this year, while the "Maxwell" architecture with 20nm process is at the end of 2013.
There are two things that seem completely unrelated, but there are actually many things inside. According to an interview with NVIDIA chief Mike Rayfield, the high-performance ARM processor developed by NVIDIA will be integrated with its own GPU, and “Maxwell†is the first product of “Project Denverâ€.
We all know that AMD has launched the Fusion APU platform that integrates CPU and GPU, which has attracted much attention from the industry. Intel's Sandy Bridge processors also integrate native display cores. Although NVIDIA did not disclose more information about "Project Denver" and "Maxwell," it already has the Tegra 2 chip introduced on a portable platform. The next generation of Windows systems can also be compatible with ARM processors. Perhaps NVIDIA also has a desire to be on the desktop. Integrated CPU and GPU integrated processing chip introduced on the platform?