Every couple of months the dark satanic rumour mill spews out reports
that Nvidia is working on an x86 chip, and every time Nvidia execs
dismiss such claims.
In an interview with CNET, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang was asked whether
the outfit was developing an x86 chip. His answer, like many times
before, was simply "no". Huang is probably getting a bit tired of
commenting such reports, so we're really not surprised by the elaborate
response.
Huang stressed that Nvidia's strategy revolves around parallel
computing, GPUs and Tegra. Huang also pointed out that Nvidia will
focus on TSMC for its foundry needs. "Globalfoundries is AMD's fab. Our
strategy is TSMC," said Huang.
Honestly, we really don't understand why people insist on reading
chicken entrails, crystal balls and tarot cards. If Nvidia was
developing an x86 product, we would have reported it by now.
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