IT-ServicesNVIDIA and Intel War To Start In 2010.
The Intel-NVIDIA war heeds warning from CRT Captial Group, saying NVIDIA maybe providing motivation to the chip giant. CRT Captial Group analyst Ashok Kumar issued a warning stating the recent tirade by NVIDIA CEO, Jen-sun Huang may have adverse effects ň€“ angering a ň€śhuge, rich, motivated design powerhouse.ň€ť
Kumar believes NVIDIAň€™s current products are better than Intelň€™s offerings, but mentions Huang is greatly overlooking Intelň€™s lack of interest in the high-end 3D-gaming market, and thus the reason why NVIDIA is so successful.
Many saw Huangň€™s outburst as NVIDIAň€™s attempt to gain higher ground before an upcoming epic battle between NVIDIA and Intel. The battle is due out in 2010 and is known as Larrabee, a multicore x86 chip as a discrete graphics card from Intel. Along with support for OpenGL and DirectX, Intel announced the chip design will include SSE-like extensions known as Advanced Vector Extensions.
Early reports on Larrabee showed chip designs incorporating 16-cores, with each core capable of operating over 2 GHz. Intel claims Larrabee is capable to scaling to several thousand cores.
Larrabeeň€™s main attraction so far has been its potential as a ray-tracing chip. However, in a recent blog by Tom Forsyth, a developer on the Larrabee project, Intelň€™s primary design focus was on rasterization since it would be the only way to render the large library of DirectX and OpenGL games on the market. NVIDIAň€™s ongoing ň€śwarň€ť with Intel started with Huang adlibbing during a financial analyst meeting, stating NVIDIA was about to ň€śopen a can of whoop assň€ť on Intel.
Huang further belittled Intelň€™s graphics solutions as a ň€śjokeň€ť and being abysmal in the visual computing world. NVIDIAň€™s VP of content relations added to the fire with a declaration that the CPU is dead.