project-denver posts

If you are a PC gamer you have had only two real choices for your gaming rig's processor; one from Intel or one from AMD. Now Nvidia has announced it is throwing its considerable hat into this ring. At its CES 2011 press conference today the company revealed plans for "Project Denver", an Nvidia-developed CPU that will be based on the ARM architecture. The CPU will be integrated with Nvidia's GPU graphics chip.

Nvidia says that it will extend the ARM architecture, which is mostly used inside mobile phones and devices, for its CPU to include being used on PCs. That means in theory your next gaming PC could have Nvidia-made or designed parts for your processor, motherboard and graphics chip. There's no word on when the first "Project Denver" CPUs will be released. In a separate press release, Microsoft announced today that the next version of its Windows operating system will support ARM-based processors.