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Nvidia almost produced an x86 CPU to rival AMD and Intel, but was forced to move to Arm due to 'certain legal issues'

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Dave Ditzel , founder of Esperanto Technologies , revealed that Nvidia ’s first server CPU , Project Denver , initially started as an x86 CPU but transitioned to Arm due to legal constraints.

He says the shift to Arm was influenced by the licensing of Transmeta 's Tokamak technology, which could translate x86 code into a RISC instruction set.