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NVIDIA 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 тЂ“ angering a тЂњhuge, rich, motivated design powerhouse.тЂќ Kumar believes NVIDIAтЂ™s current products are better than IntelтЂ™s offerings, but mentions Huang is greatly overlooking IntelтЂ™s lack of interest in the high-end 3D-gaming market, and thus the reason why NVIDIA is so successful. Many saw HuangтЂ™s outburst as NVIDIAтЂ™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. LarrabeeтЂ™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, IntelтЂ™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. NVIDIAтЂ™s ongoing тЂњwarтЂќ with Intel started with Huang adlibbing during a financial analyst meeting, stating NVIDIA was about to тЂњopen a can of whoop assтЂќ on Intel. Huang further belittled IntelтЂ™s graphics solutions as a тЂњjokeтЂќ and being abysmal in the visual computing world. NVIDIAтЂ™s VP of content relations added to the fire with a declaration that the CPU is dead.

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