The fact that they are using a Neoverse core licensed from ARM seems to imply that there won’t be another generation for NVidia’s Denver/Carmel microarchitectures. Somewhat of a shame, because those microarchitectures were unorthodox in some ways, and it would have been interesting to see where that line of evolution would have lead.

I believe this leaves Apple, ARM, Fujitsu, and Marvell as the only companies currently designing and selling cores that implement the ARM instruction set. That may drop to 3 in the next generation, since it’s not obvious that Marvell’s ThunderX3 cores are really seeing enough traction to be be worth the non-recurring engineering costs of a custom core. Are there any others?