NV's latest roadmap exposure "Denver" debuts in the earliest year

NVIDIA announced the latest product roadmap at GTC Workshop Japan 2011, a conference for GPU computing developers that opened on July 22. It can be seen that the ARM architecture CPU codenamed "Denver" by NVIDIA will debut at the same time as the next generation GPU core "Maxwell" at the earliest in 2013.

From Roadmap, we can also understand that Denver and Maxwell are facing the same market, including laptops, desktops, workstations and supercomputers. Enter Intel and AMD's headquarters to compete with them; maybe Denver and Maxwell will be like AMD's APU and Like its own Tegra, it launched integrated products.

At the same time, NVIDIA seems to be reluctant to lag behind Intel in the parallel computing of supercomputers. The internal design of the "Echelon" processor Exa (10th of the 18th power) announced last November also made its debut, integrating at least 1024 cores. Chris A, NVIDIA co-founder and senior vice president. Malachowsky stated that Exa-level computers cannot be implemented simply by improving the process, but also consider the issue of energy consumption.

The conference also talked about the origin of the NVIDIA company name. The three founders, Jen-Hsun Huang, Curtis Priem and Chris Malachowsky originally intended to use the name of the three to be linked together as the name of the company. Later they felt too long to give up. The trio who thought of the next name "envision" was co-authored by the law firm and commented as "like the name of a toilet paper brand," and eventually set it up as NVIDIA.