Intel & Nvidia: The Next Tech War?

[Terry Olaes]

eWeek has an article about Intel’s recent announcements regarding Larrabee and Nehalem technology and how they herald the coming of a new battle between Intel and Nvidia.

It’s more than just the graphics that go into PCs that Nvidia and Intel are likely to clash over in the coming months. Both companies also see GPU and graphics technologies as a key feature to delve deeper into the HPC (high-performance computing) market, a lucrative field where graphics could increase overall compute performance.

 

[Mabrito]

Its going to be interesting later this year, thats for sure. It will be cool if Intel does come out with one hell of a graphics chip.

 

[kuyaglen]

Its going to be interesting later this year,

I'm thinking more along the lines of, "later this decade".

 

[rahavsmt]

Its going to be interesting later this year, thats for sure. It will be cool if Intel does come out with one hell of a graphics chip.

Hopefully they will perform better than their last offering, the i740.

 

[michael.pa2]

If anyone can challenge Intel,it's Nvidia.They have the resources, and a track record of success AMD lacks.On the flip side,Intel may prove more capable of challenging Nvidia's dominance in the graphics area than ATI.Either way,it would be the consumers who win,both these companies need real competition to spur innovation and keep down prices.

 

[mavalpha]

I think that the general concensus is that Larrabee will be good, but not good enough to really compete in the targeted market- just due to lack of recent experience. That's not a bad thing, as it will give them a solid foundation for Larrabee2.

My thinking is that Larrabee will be significant for a different reason: considering that Intel bought HavokFX a year or two back, they would be smart to allow native physics support on their graphics chip. It will force nVidia to rush porting PhysX support over to CUDA (GeForce8), and hopefully DAAMIT will answer in kind. No matter the gaming performance of Larrabee, it will force the market to innovate in other regards.

 

[HomerRulez]

dual quads punped GPUs by intel. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

its possible

 

[mac292]

INTEL vs NV???

MUAHAHAHA......

IMHO,intel has totally smashed AMD cpu's head 2 head,over & over...consistently delivering new tech based on moores law....WOOT!

NV has crushed AMD in the gpu market head 2 head, over & over,but not consistently based on the the idea of moores law,as of here latey(8800GTX vs 9800GTX)....

NV will need to get their shit together if they think they can take a kick in the nuts from big bad intel.....and if intel says they are going to give customers graphics solutions,i highly doubt they will 1/2 ass the product....like some companies in the GPU market.....

looks to me amd will be the biggest loser.....they will be 2nd & 3rd tier in both markets....

 

[sam0t]

^ ok we are discussing about 3D cards, little less smack down

Intel entering the 3D market sure sounds intresting, I just have to wonder how fast they can do it, both ATI/Nvidia have has a really long R&D history to get where they are today. So in this I agree with the earlier "later this decade" comment.

 

[Silus]

Well, I don't think Intel can pull off a GPU that is able to compete with NVIDIA's mid to high-end offerings. At least not that soon, so I also agree with the "later this decade" comment.

 

[Monkey God]

has Intel ever made a decent graphics chip, that could do more than generic 2d windows apps?

 

[michael.pa2]

has Intel ever made a decent graphics chip, that could do more than generic 2d windows apps?

Perhaps they didn't consider it a priority until now.With Nvidia encroaching in the motherboard chipset area,and their refusal to allow SLI on Intel chipset boards,maybe Intel figures it's time to expand into the graphics area seriously.