NVIDIA and AMD reportedly plan to take on Intel with their own Arm PC chips, targeting the Windows operating system, and could hit the shelves as early as 2025.
Nvidia and AMD are reportedly planning to make PC chips that will rival those made by Intel and seek to compete on the same turf as Apple’s M-series silicon for Macs. According to Reuters, Nvidia and AMD’s Arm-based processors will target the Windows operating system and might hit the shelves as early as 2025. So far, Qualcomm has been the only major player designing Arm-based processors for what Microsoft classifies as «always-on» PCs that take less power and offer cellular connectivity in a more compact form factor.
This would be a double-whammy for Intel and a jackpot for Nvidia. Right now, Intel is the world’s biggest vendor of processors based on the in-house x86 architecture. AMD is also in the game, but its market share is significantly smaller. Intel suffered its first setback when Apple announced its transition away from x86-based Intel processors to Arm-based processors for the Mac and achieved great success in terms of performance gain and market share.
