Rumor: Nvidia and Samsung will stop using ARM chips for servers for the time being

Samsung and Nvidia are said to have shelved or even canceled their plans to come up with ARM chips for servers, according to an American business newspaper. It is unclear why the companies are waiving it.

Nvidia announced a server chip in 2011 that should be used in PCs, data centers, servers and supercomputers, but a spokesperson for Nvidia confirmed to The Wall Street Journal that the chip will now be part of the Tegra line of mobile socs. Regarding future plans for ARM chips for servers, the spokesperson only says that the company may come up with such chips “at some point in the future.”

Samsung even seems to have completely scrapped the plans for ARM server chips. According to a source of the business newspaper, Samsung has decided to stop the work of a team working on such chips. Incidentally, Samsung also never announced that it was working on ARM server chips, but the company is said to have hired staff to work on them.

AMD previously unveiled an ARM chip for servers. Broadcam, Texas Instruments and Marvell have also announced they are working on ARM chips for servers; Qualcomm is also said to be doing that in secret, but hasn’t released anything about it yet.