During his conference dedicated to financial analysts, CEO of Nvidia Jen-Hsun Huang revealed the first photo of the innards of the Denver project. Or maybe not. As shown by a member of the Xtreme Systems forum, the photo display in the presentation of Mr. Huang is very likely that a portion of a deformed Fermi GPU.
Nvidia has added over blocks embodying the various units of CPU Denver. Such an assembly can prove two things: a) Nvidia already has a precise idea of the architecture of its future ARM CPU, b) Nvidia has not yet produced the CPU, and therefore did not show silicon. This corresponds rather well to the roadmap that Nvidia has raised for his project Denver.
Huang said that a few hundred engineers working on this project for 3 ½ years. According to him it takes about 5 years to develop a CPU from scratch. Denver marketing could take place by the start of 2012. The production of the first copies of Denver should best intervene at the end of this year.
The second point that Mr. Huang revealed that Denver will be a 64-bit CPU, but backwards compatible with existing ARM architectures. There is currently no 64-bit ARM processor, Nvidia will therefore use a novel generation ARM architecture. 
Nvidia has added over blocks embodying the various units of CPU Denver. Such an assembly can prove two things: a) Nvidia already has a precise idea of the architecture of its future ARM CPU, b) Nvidia has not yet produced the CPU, and therefore did not show silicon. This corresponds rather well to the roadmap that Nvidia has raised for his project Denver.
Huang said that a few hundred engineers working on this project for 3 ½ years. According to him it takes about 5 years to develop a CPU from scratch. Denver marketing could take place by the start of 2012. The production of the first copies of Denver should best intervene at the end of this year.
The second point that Mr. Huang revealed that Denver will be a 64-bit CPU, but backwards compatible with existing ARM architectures. There is currently no 64-bit ARM processor, Nvidia will therefore use a novel generation ARM architecture.
- NVIDIA announces CPU (06/01/2011)
- CES 2011: Nvidia announces plans for "Project Denver" ARM-based CPU (05/01/2011)
- John Carmack Believes NVIDIA Can Make a Good ARM Core (12/01/2011)
- CES: Nvidia chips to power ARM-based PCs (06/01/2011)
- CES: Nvidia, ARM partner on company's first high-performance CPU (05/01/2011)
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