Nvidia to make CPU/GPU Chip?

[Tigerj]

Yea, I know it is the Inq...

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35216

WE MANAGED to confirm that Nvidia has started to develop a CPU.

Charlie wrote about the interesting implications of Nvidia's good fortune in acquiring some folk from Stexar, a company that was known for its X86 marchitectural expertise.

And now we hear that development is underway at Nvidia's just-announced Portland, Oregon, Design Center, where chip folk are beaving away on 45 nanometre designs.

The project should bear fruit sometime in 2008, as Nvidia prepares plans to compete with Intel and AMD on the blended graphic and CPU concept.

This is what OEMs want in 2008. Sixty-five or 45 nanometre processes make this possible and AMD and Intel are going to do it, so Nvidia doesn’t have much choice.

It seems Nvidia might remain a feisty player in the years to come, unless someone fanatically swallows it.

Things are certainly heating up.

Other past news that may of lead to this?

http://www.ngohq.com/home.php?page=Articles&go=read&arc_id=91
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.07/Nvidia.html

[jAkUp]

This is the direction that Sweeney wanted to see things going, but don't expect anything like this for a long time.

[Daneel Olivaw]

This is the direction that Sweeney wanted to see things going, but don't expect anything like this for a long time.Though along the same lines, AMD-ATI has confirmed a low-end low cost cpu-gpu chip for early 2008.