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Nvidia paints the town green

Posted by Kathleen Maher on August 26th 2008 | Permalink
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The fountains flowed a toxic green that puts all those terrible green beer St. Patrick’s hangovers in perspective. You were never that sick. But the point was made. San Jose, at least for these three days in August belongs to Nvidia.  What we find interesting is what Nvidia has chosen to concentrate on. There has been plenty of candy for the game boys, but the emphasis is on business, high end computing, entertainment and the future. One thing is for sure, stereographics is here to stay—at least for a couple of years. Jen Hsung Huang showcased 3D video in his keynote…

Larry’s Bee - Part Two

Posted by Jon Peddie on August 7th 2008 | Permalink
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Last week I posed a postulate that Intel could justify the investment in Larrabee (Larry’s Bee) on the basis of obtaining some level of parity with the incumbents, mainly ATI and Nvidia. And in my rush to post and then catch an airplane, I included the total discrete graphics semiconductor market, not just the desktop discrete market – sigh. OK, I’ll eat a little humble pie, give you the right numbers but more importantly suggest something bigger. First the numbers I mistakenly used the total GPU (desktop and notebook) in my calculation of Intel’s TAM – although the charts revealed the…

Why not Larrabee?

Posted by Jon Peddie on August 1st 2008 | Permalink
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Anyone not stuck in outer space or maximum security knows Intel is going to introduce a new chip code named Larrabee. At Siggraph they are going to reveal, after almost two years of teases and leaks, the architecture of the device. It is not a GPU as many have mistakenly described it, but it can do most graphics functions, Intel says it can do all, we’ll have to wait for proof. Right now its slide-ware, but development systems are supposed to become available in November. ATI and Nvidia will be very busy discrediting the device and pointing out its shortcomings. They…