[alexhutcheson]

Somewhat tangential, but did Nvidia ever confirm if they cancelled their project to develop custom cores implementing the ARM instruction set (Project Denver, and later Carmel)?

It’s interesting to me that they’ve settled on using standard Neoverse cores, when almost everything else is custom designed and tuned for the expected workloads.

[adrian_b]

Already in Nvidia Orin, which has replaced Xavier (with Carmel cores) a couple of years ago, the CPU cores have been Cortex-A78AE.

So Nvidia has given up on designing CPU cores, already for some years.

The Carmel core had a performance similar to Cortex-A75, even if it was launched by the time when Cortex-A76 was already available. Moreover, Carmel had very low clock frequencies, which diminished its performance even more. Like also Qualcomm or Samsung, Nvidia has not been able to keep up with the Arm Holdings design teams. (Now Qualcomm is back in the CPU design business only because they have acquired Nuvia.)