AMD’s loss is NVIDIA’s gain. That is perhaps how you can sum up this report which shows the possible jump of NVIDIA into the netbook CPU market scene. NVIDIA executive, Michael Hara, vice president of investor relations at NVIDIA, announced last week that the company may develop an x86 CPU targeted at the netbooks and mobile Internet devices (MID) market.

The move would place NVIDIA in direct competition with AMD in CPU industry, as well the GPU industry. And the move would also do little to improve the already sour relations between NVIDIA and Intel, the mobile CPU industry’s top player.

When asked when that “someday” might be, he responded that he couldn’t discuss specifics, but a mobile x86 NVIDIA CPU may be coming in two to three years. NVIDIA is also still deciding whether to develop the potential CPU internally or license its development to another firm. Derek Perez, an NVIDIA spokesman, says no hard decisions have been made on this yet and that NVIDIA is still exploring its options. If NVIDIA does choose to do its own development, it will likely have to purchase a company with rights to key x86 technologies.

(Source) Daily Tech