Nvidia CEO discusses his beef with Intel – Larrabee Ticks Him Off
Brooke Crothers over at CNET Networks got a chance to speak with NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang this week about why NVIDIA is going after Intel so publicly. It seems that Jen-Hsun is upset that Intel been dropping hints about its upcoming high-end graphics chip, called Larrabee, with relatively few specifics. “Larabee is a PowerPoint slide,” Huang said. “I haven’t met a product on my PowerPoint slide that I don’t like. You know, they’re floating Larrabee out there just to put a shadow over us, cast a cloud over us. They’ve already slipped it two years from the time they talked about. They would love to slip it another four years and leave a cloud over me.” It looks like Jen-Hsun has put his boxing gloves on and is in it to win it. Since I used the ‘in it to win it’ line, we’ll keep our fingers crossed that Jen-Hsun has better luck than Hillary Clinton with that saying.
Huang will tear into Intel when he thinks it’s warranted. And Intel may have reason to be worried about the content of Huang’s candor. Despite Intel’s colossal size and and clout, Nvidia–not Intel–supplies the defining chip for the most savvy computer users: game enthusiasts. They depend on Nvidia graphics chips to deliver the spectacular visuals of games like Crysis. And few people will deny that computing is becoming more visual. The GPU is essentially a parallel-computing engine that is extremely efficient at running visual (and scientific) software–that is, many of the popular graphics, video, and photo applications now running on PCs.
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