NVIDIA Wants to “Open a Can of Whoop Ass”

No one is sure what to make of Intel’s upcoming Larrabee platform, but that’s simply because it’s difficult to predict the future. If done right, Larrabee could prove a true competitor in the discrete graphics market, and neither NVIDIA nor AMD are pleased with the notion, understandably.

During an analyst meeting, DailyTech reports that NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang exclaimed that the the company was “Going to open a can of whoop ass”. Wow. That’s not something you hear from a CEO everyday.

Obviously, Jen-Hsun is a bit perturbed about Intel’s claims that discrete graphics as we know them are on the way out, thanks to their lack of scalability. Of course, at Beijing’s Intel Developer Forum last month, Pat Gelsinger made it known that Larrabee would not replace mid-range and higher discrete graphics, so NVIDIA has nothing to worry about right now.

Huang argues that not only are Intel’s integrated offerings “a joke,” but that even if Intel manages increase graphics performance by ten times by 2010, that’s barely up to par with current NVIDIA offerings. He claims what passes for average graphics outside of the tech enthusiast crowd should be consider abysmal in the visual computing world.

Source: DailyTech