Nvidia Comments on Larrabee Cancellation without Throwing Punches
Nvidia Comments on Larrabee Cancellation without Throwing Punches
Posted 12/10/2009 at 9:30am
| by Paul Lilly
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Intel made a surprise announcement recently when the chip maker said it was canceling its much hyped Larrabee graphics chip, saying the GPU would exist only as a software development platform until further notice. Given all the attention Larrabee has received and now the sudden turn of events, we wouldn't be surprised if Nvidia used the situation as ammunition in its ongoing verbal warfare with Intel. So what did Nvidia have to say?
"The fact that a company with Intel's technical prowess and financial resources has struggled so hard to succeed with parallel computing shows just how exceptionally difficult a challenge this is," Igor Stanek, Nvidia Product PR Manager, told Fudzilla when asked to comment on the situation.
That's quite a bit more tame than we would have expected from Nvidia, but then again, the verbal volleys usually come from Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, who once declared the CPU a dead business and promised to open up a can of whoop-ass on the competition.
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Carl011
December 23, 2009 at 10:20pm
Two life-long friends were enjoying a few pints down at the local bar, when one said to the other:
"If I ask you a question, will you promise to answer me honestly?"
"Yeah, sure thing," replied his friend, "fire away."
"Well," said the first guy, "why do you think all the guys around here find my wife so attractive?"
"It's probably because of her speech impediment," replied the second guy.
"What do you mean her speech impediment?" inquired the first fellow.
"My wife doesn't have a speech impediment!"
"Well," replied his friend, "you must be the only guy who hasn't noticed that she can't say 'NO'!"
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RAMBO
December 13, 2009 at 2:54am
So is the Larrabee graphics chip dead or alive or just the Larrabee Software side alive?
I really did not get the right anwser reading both of Max's articals, please tell me it's so;
that Larrabee hardware is truely dead. That will truely make my day!!!
Go ATI, Nvidia, long live the add on/in Video Card, Power to the EndUser...
Happy Holiday's All...
lien_meat
December 10, 2009 at 10:42am
Jen-Hsun Huang wasn't the one that made the comment. Seriously...that guy is seemingly never modest or humble. The PR guy that made the comment has a job to worry about...he probably knows better than to shout as loudly and boldly as the companies often overt CEO.... I think if you interviewed Jen-Hsun Huang, you'd probably get a completely different type of response.
However, I agree with the PR guy. Parallelism is a very hard thing to do right...and interestingly I think nvidia may be better at GPU computing than they are at regular video computing (if that makes sense) these days.
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