NVIDIA Project Denver: ARM Powered Servers

NVIDIA has been an ARM licensee for quite some time now.  Back in 2008 they announced Tegra, an embedded client processor including an ARM core and NVIDIA graphics aimed at smartphones and mobile handsets. 10 days ago, they announced Project Denver where they are building high-performance ARM-based CPUs, designed to power systems ranging from “personal computers and servers to workstations and supercomputers”. This is interesting for a variety of reasons, first they are entering the server CPU market. Second NVIDIA is joining Marvell and Calxeda (previously Smooth-Stone) in taking the ARM architecture and targeting server-side computing.

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