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They also more or less won the PS4/XB1 generation by default as the only supplier capable of combining a half decent CPU and GPU into a single chip - Intel had good CPUs but terrible GPUs and Nvidia had good GPUs but terrible CPUs. That tide is shifting now with Intel's renewed push into GPUs, and Nvidia getting access to high performance ARM reference designs.


It's also interesting that at one point, Nvidia's chips were going to support both x86 and ARM (see Project Denver), but x86 support was scrapped due to Intel's patents.

https://semiaccurate.com/2011/08/05/what-is-project-denver-b...

Would of been interesting to have had another large x86 player




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